Great Stour · Chilham Mill Estate
Great Stour, Chilham Mill
Great Stour, Chilham Mill is a fishing beat on the Great Stour at Chilham Mill Estate. Syndicate members only. Membership is the main route on, but it is worth asking, as many clubs keep guest or taster days open.
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Fishing details
Great Stour, Chilham Mill at a glance
- Rods
- Up to 2
- Difficulty
- –
- Length
- 0.78 miles
- Water type
- chalk stream
Fishing methods
Fly methods
This is the Chilham Mill stretch of the Great Stour, let by Chilham Mill Estate. The estate describes it as 1,250 metres of the river and its tributaries for two rods. Its home page gives 1,500 metres, so the length is not certain. It does not say where the stretch starts and finishes.
The estate says the river has a large number of wild brown trout and is stocked regularly with brown trout, and that there are wintered fish as well. Sea trout are present at certain times of year, and the biggest caught so far is 9 lb. Because the Stour here is a chalk stream, the estate allows only upstream dry fly.
The estate lets the fishing by syndicate, and applications go to the estate by phone or email. The estate has said that four places remain, but its fly fishing page is headed 2023 and gives no price, so ask what is available now.
Stocking and fish species
Rules and policies
Fishing rules for Great Stour, Chilham Mill
Upstream dry fly only, per the estate’s fly fishing rules page. The syndicate fishes two rods. You need a valid Environment Agency rod licence.
Where Great Stour, Chilham Mill is
Exact location is hidden at the owner's request. This beat is on the Great Stour at Chilham Mill Estate.
Approximate locationThe fishery and river
River
The Great Stour is the main river of the Kentish Stour. It rises near Lenham, close to the North Downs escarpment, and runs north-east through Ashford, Wye, Chilham, Chartham and Canterbury to the tidal limit at Fordwich. Below the Little Stour confluence at Plucks Gutter it is normally called the River Stour, and it…
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