We’re delighted to bring you the opportunity to enjoy fly fishing on The National Trust’s very special reaches of the River Test and Dun at Mottisfont. The Oakley, Rectory and Dun beats are now managed as an unstocked, wild fishery where the focus is on long-term river health, habitat improvement and responsible access.

Fishing will be offered on a fishery-exclusive basis, for groups of up to four rods. A booking gives you sole access to fish all three beats, just over 2.2km of chalk stream, for the day.
The river has changed considerably in recent years. Between 2023 and 2025 significant habitat improvement projects have been carried out on the Oakley and Rectory beats, with another planned for the Dun following the end of the 2026 season. Alongside this, The National Trust has implemented a deliberately light-touch management regime designed to allow nature to flourish. 

The result is stretches of chalk stream that have all the habitat that not just trout, but everything else that lives in and around the river, need to thrive.
Diverse, lush marginal fringes, an abundance of woody features and lots of low overhanging cover don’t make the fishing easy, but they do make it rewarding. To help you navigate all this and make sure you get the most out of your day, we encourage wading.

Whilst there’s a good head of wild trout, including a few real specimen fish to search out, a day at Mottisfont is about the place and the habitat as much as it is the fishing.