Beats

Beat 1 — Undy's Meadow

The most upstream beat of the Main Fishery, with several cleared pools kept fishable; part of the bank here …

Beat 2 — The Draughts

A winding stretch above Rootes Hut with heavy weed growth; wild fish rise freely here through a good olive h…

Beat 3 — Rootes Beat

Fast water on a clean gravel bed running from Eddington Mill up to the fishery's century-old thatched fishin…

Beat 4 — Upstream of Eddington Bridge

From Eddington Bridge upstream to Eddington Mill. The stretch runs between The Island on the far bank and Ch…

Beat 5 — Eddington Bridge to Wine Cellar

One of the most reliably rising stretches on the fishery, ending at the Wine Cellar Pool — a deep, wooded po…

Beat 6 — Wine Cellar Bridge to Bracket Hatch

The longest and most popular beat on the fishery — deeper and tree-shaded, holding fish well through summer,…

Beat 7 — Bracket Hatch to Dun Mill Bridge

Two linked stretches — the main channel and the Back Stream — shaded enough to fish well on bright days, wit…

Beat 8 — Lower Meadow

The first beat below the Kennet/Dun confluence — shallow, fast and thick with ranunculus, with strong mayfly…

Beat 9 — Lower Dun

A gravel-bedded stretch of the River Dun, 3–4 feet deep, running parallel to the Kennet below Hungerford. Fi…

Beat 10 — Historic Channel

A developing side channel below Eddington Pool, winding past Eddington Lake to a new bridge on Beat 2. Large…

Beat 11 — Hungerford Marsh (River Dun)

Roughly a kilometre of the River Dun within an SSSI, one of two Town & Manor Dun beats, with its own fishing…

Beat 12 — Freeman's Marsh (River Dun)

About a kilometre of shallower, more physically challenging River Dun water upstream of Hungerford Marsh, en…