"The UK is a fantastic place to fish IF you are willing to pay the BIG$$$"

Its certainly true that many places can be very expensive especially on stretches of the test and itchen in southern england, but if you do a little research it can work out cheaper.

For example one of the links I had earlier has day tickets to the river avon in Durrington, very near where Frank Sawyer was riverkeeper and on the same river for 5 pounds. Thats a lovely river very chalkstream like in nature. I've fished other stretches of that river but not that particular stretch. That same site represents a club with access to about 5 or 6 rivers in the area and 2 lakes all for about $220 a year, but then again you'd have to wait a few years (3 probably) to get off the waiting list.

Away from the heavily populated southern counties of england you could try out the Wye and Usk passport scheme which allows you to roam over quiet a large area for not too much money. Use the Uk bulletin board [url=http://www.flyforums.co.uk/index.php:61449]http://www.flyforums.co.uk/index.php[/url:61449]

to get some good hints to perhaps less expensive fishing.

One good place is the river dart in Devon/Cornwall on the Prince of Wales duchy of cornwall estate where day tickets are pretty reasonable I'm told for miles of fishing.