Thanks for your comments Will.  The Sparsholt course runs twice a year and the next one is on 27 - 28 January 2007 so that may already be full.  The one after that is likely to be next November.  Best of luck.

By the way, we had a phenomenal amount of rain last night and the river is now in monumental spate and well over the banks at New Inn.  I fear for the trout redds which won't stand the buffeting that this water is giving them.  Still, it's relatively early in the spawning season so hopefully not too much lasting damage will be done.  Its clear and bright now so I will take a wander up to Dale Mire later on (work permitting) and see how the redds are up there.

Ian.