Lloyd’s Flyfishing Society

Lloyd’s Flyfishing Society is for people connected to the London insurance market, and almost nobody else can join. Full membership needs a current or former link to Lloyd’s or the wider market, as an underwriting member, underwriter, broker, agent, or an employee of the Corporation of Lloyd’s, or as a service provider, an accountant, lawyer, banker or consultant, doing business with the market. A small number of associate memberships exist for others the society’s committee considers a genuine asset to it.

Founded in 1987, the society now runs to several hundred members and fishes chiefly the southern chalk streams, principally the Test and Itchen and their carriers. On the Test its members have had beats at Broadlands, Chilbolton, Fullerton, Houghton Lodge, Leckford, Mottisfont, Park Stream and Testwood; on the Itchen, a Lower beat and the Easton Carrier. The society also holds water on other rivers beyond the Test and Itchen, but those two are its principal chalk stream fishing.

Joining costs a one-off £40 fee, waived for anyone 35 or under, plus a £40 annual subscription due each January. There is no day-ticket or guest route in for the public; membership runs through the society’s own application form, open to anyone who meets the market connection above. Enquiries go through lloydsflyfishers.org.