River Exe
Bend Pool Beat
Bend Pool Beat is a fishing beat on the River Exe. Day tickets from £15.
Pricing and season
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How Bend Pool Beat compares on the River Exe
Typical, lowest and highest full-day rod, from 7 beats with published day rates
Day tickets on the River Exe run from £10 to £30. The typical full-day rate is around £10, peaking in February.
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Bend Pool Beat at a glance
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- Length
- 0.5 miles
- Water type
- main river
Fishing methods
Bend Pool is about 800 metres of single bank fishing on the River Exe just upstream of Exebridge, from the right bank, up to the first small weir above the old railway bridge. It is a Dulverton Angling Association beat and is also sold on the Fish The Exe scheme.
Most of it is a sweeping right hand bend, and the fishing is in casting towards the deeper water on the outside of the bend. It holds some good brown trout and grayling, an occasional salmon and sometimes an escaped rainbow. Dry fly, wet fly and nymph can all work. Fish The Exe describes the river here as about 20 yards wide, best fished with a 10 to 12 foot fly rod, with easy walking and grayling fishing in winter. Power lines cross the river overhead.
You reach the beat through Exe Valley Fishery, and anglers may use the fishery car park; its lakes and leat are not part of the fishing. Fish The Exe sells tickets for two rods every day: £30 for a salmon day, £15 for a salmon evening and £10 for a trout day, with River Exe and Tributaries Association membership needed first.
Stocking and fish species
Rules and policies
Fishing rules for Bend Pool Beat
Fly only, with barbless or crushed barb hooks. Catch and release is mandatory for every fish except rainbow trout, which should be killed. Release all salmon; salmon fishing is fly only with no more than two hook points and no treble hooks. Carry a knotless net and a disgorger. No dogs. Guests may only fish with a member. Fish within the boundaries on the beat map. Seasons on Dulverton AA water: salmon 14 February to 30 September, trout 15 March to 30 September.
Where Bend Pool Beat is
Exact location is hidden at the owner's request. This beat is on the River Exe.
Approximate locationThe river
River
The River Exe rises at Exe Head on Exmoor, near Simonsbath, which is in Somerset. Almost the whole of its 60 miles is in Devon, though, and it flows more or less due south, through Tiverton and on to Exeter. Below Exeter it becomes a broad ria, the Exe Estuary, reaching the English Channel between Exmouth and Dawlish…
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Bend Pool Beat FAQs
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