River Carey
Middle Bridge Lower
Middle Bridge Lower is a fishing beat on the River Carey. Passport scheme.
How to book
Fishing details
Middle Bridge Lower at a glance
- Rods
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- Difficulty
- –
- Length
- 0.43 miles
- Water type
- tributary
Fishing methods
Middle Bridge Lower is about 700 metres of meandering River Carey, a tributary of the upper Tamar. It runs mostly tree lined through lightly grazed pasture, and the Passport warns that getting along and into the river is fairly hard because of overgrowth, so side, roll and bow and arrow casts are needed.
There are several productive long glides and slower pools, plus a few blown out corner pools, and all of them hold wild brown trout and grayling. Brown trout are typically 3 to 10 inches, with some fish of 15 inches or more in the bigger pools, and grayling of 9 to 12 inches are common. Smaller sea trout arrive by August and will take a large dry fly or a heavy nymph, particularly after rain.
Fly only, with a rod rated 0 to 4 weight, 5 to 9 feet long. A day costs 3 Fish Pass tokens, booked through the Westcountry Angling Passport.
Stocking and fish species
Rules and policies
Fishing rules for Middle Bridge Lower
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 Lower is
The beat's boundary, with parking where we have it.
50.70984, -4.30785
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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