John Bailey On The Fly Series

Now Playing: Longford Estate, Avon

Who can fail to remember the Crabtree books where father and son would set out to discover the wonders of angling in all its guises. Those tails were set amid the piscatorial heaven of the Hampshire Avon. Today John Bailey takes to the Avon at its most scenic at the Longford Estate near Downton in Wiltshire with international match angler and fishing magazine editor, Gareth Purnell