River Dever · Dever Springs
River Dever Beat
River Dever Beat is a fishing beat on the River Dever at Dever Springs. Guided visits only.
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Fishing details
River Dever Beat at a glance
- Rods
- 10 – 20
- Difficulty
- Expert (4/5)
- Length
- 0.5 miles
- Water type
- chalk stream
Fishing methods
Fly methods
Half a mile of the River Dever runs past the lakes at Dever Springs, and anyone fishing there for the day is welcome on it. It is a small chalk stream, narrow and clear, and it fishes nothing like the stillwaters beside it. It holds wild brown trout and grayling, and they see you coming, so it is usually a slow walk up and one good cast rather than a lot of water covered.
Everything caught in the river goes back, whatever the rules are on the lakes, which seems right for a wild head of fish in a stream this size. Upstream dry fly and nymph are the methods. The Dever carries decent hatches of the usual upwinged flies through the season, and grannom have been reported again in recent years.
It is worth taking the rod down here even if you came for the big stillwater trout. The Dever runs on from Barton Stacey to join the Test at Bransbury, a couple of miles below, so this is a fair sample of what the little river is like.
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Where River Dever Beat is
The beat's boundary, with parking where we have it.
51.17520, -1.37953
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River
A compact Hampshire chalk stream, the River Dever rises at West Stratton near Micheldever and runs westward for 11 miles through Micheldever, Sutton Scotney, and the hamlets of Weston Colley and Wonston before skirting Barton Stacey and passing through Bransbury, where it meets the River Test on Bransbury Common at…
Flies for this beat
Expected in October on the River Dever
Typical months from the river’s hatch calendar, which applies along its whole length rather than to this beat. Not a live report.
Caperer
Sedge · #10-12
Kite's Imperial
Dry fly · #14-16
Daddy Long Legs
Terrestrial · #10-12
Sawyer's Killer Bug
Nymph · #12-16
The year ahead
Full calendarEvery hatch on the River Dever and the months it usually runs.
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FAQ
River Dever Beat FAQs
Practical questions anglers ask before fishing River Dever Beat, from tickets to tactics.
