Hi Terry, (or anyone else who knows)


Here is your Question of the Day from a Kansas fly angler who is ignorant (but curious) about Great Britian fishing:

When you refer to a waterway as being a "chalk stream" does that mean the stream actually runs for some or all of its length across ancient chalk formations laid down as ocean sediment aeons ago?

Here in the U.S. we have lots of limestone streams. Some can be found in Kansas, even (although most of my state's limestone formations on rivers are confined to the area immediately before, within and immediately below riffles -- the rest of the river section having a sediment bottom).

In Kansas we have many chalk formations, but ours are buried beneath many feet of soil overburden. No chalk streams in Kansas. At least none that I know of.

Very pretty streams, in your story photos. Nice work by the company that did this restoration. They'll all go to Heaven when they die, for doing something this cool for trout.


Joe
"Better small than not at all."