River Carey
Middle Bridge Higher
Middle Bridge Higher is a fishing beat on the River Carey. Passport scheme.
How to book
Fishing details
Middle Bridge Higher at a glance
- Rods
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- Difficulty
- –
- Length
- 0.87 miles
- Water type
- tributary
Fishing methods
Middle Bridge Higher is about 1.4 kilometres of the River Carey, 10 to 20 feet wide and fairly shallow with some deeper pools. It holds wild brown trout and grayling, with sea trout and salmon arriving from July onwards. The beat also runs 50 to 100 yards up the small Henford Water.
Three fields give different water. The first is an open floodplain with narrow glides, shoots and long pools. The second is wider and tree lined, with good pool and riffle sequences and the best dry fly fishing on the beat. The third has two braids around Half Acre Island and more open water above it. Dries, small nymphs or a mix of the two both work, and a rod rated 0 to 4 weight, 5 to 9 feet long, is about right. Thigh or chest waders and a wading stick are advised.
Fly only. A day costs 2 Fish Pass tokens, booked through the Westcountry Angling Passport.
Stocking and fish species
Rules and policies
Fishing rules for Middle Bridge Higher
Fly only. Brown trout 15 March to 30 September; grayling from 1 February to 14 March and again from 16 June to 31 December. Dogs are allowed if well behaved or kept on a lead.
Where Middle Bridge Higher is
The beat's boundary, with parking where we have it.
50.71148, -4.30793
The river
River
The River Carey is a small river in west Devon and a tributary of the Tamar. It rises in Halwill Moor Plantation, at Halwill, and flows south west past Quoditch and Ashwater, then on a southern course near Virginstow, before it joins the Tamar near St Stephens by Launceston. Measured along its channel on the map it is…
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