Hi Willie, I`ve fished the Stour alot over the years, most of it is controlled by local clubs in particular the Canterbury & District AA.There are however day ticket stretches, the stretch at Plucks Gutter is quite good. The C.D.A.A is a good club to join because you get alot of water for your money,and they have stocked both the Stour & its tributary the Little Stour with a good head of barbel & chub. If you dont wnt to pay anything you can fish the stretch that runs through Canterbury city centre, real chalk stream fishing! As for the Wantsum, i used to fish it years ago, this used to be the channel that seperated the Isle of Thanet from the mainland (long time ago!), its pretty small now & not very fast running, lots of small rudd & roach some decent pike & the odd big tench as i seem to remember