River Frome
The Watery Beat
The Watery Beat is a fishing beat on the River Frome. Day tickets from £30.
Pricing and season
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How The Watery Beat compares on the River Frome
Typical, lowest and highest full-day rod, from 23 beats with published day rates
Day tickets on the River Frome run from £30 to £145. The typical full-day rate is around £60, peaking in May.
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The Watery Beat at a glance
- Rods
- –
- Difficulty
- Expert (4/5)
- Length
- 0.45 miles
- Water type
- carrier
Fishing methods
Fly methods
The Watery Beat sits on a carrier of the River Frome, a couple of miles below West Stafford near Tincleton in Dorset. It runs just under half a mile, one of five beats held by The Little Syndicate across the Frome, Piddle and Cerne, and unusually for their water it's open on a day ticket as well as to syndicate members.
The beat holds Brown Trout, Grayling, and everything caught goes back. It's carrier-scale water rather than main river: smaller and more enclosed, with close, careful fishing needed rather than open casting, but with the same clear-water, wild-fish character as the rest of the Frome's smaller channels. Trout run from April to mid-October, with grayling from mid-June to mid-March.
Day tickets start from £30. It's a good way to try a piece of the syndicate's water before committing to membership: modest, quiet fishing rather than a big showpiece beat.
Stocking and fish species
Rules and policies
Where The Watery Beat is
The beat's boundary, with parking where we have it.
50.71879, -2.33304
The river
River
England's most westerly major chalk stream, the River Frome rises from St John's Well in the village of Evershot and runs for 35 miles through the heart of Dorset. From Evershot it passes through Cattistock, Maiden Newton, and Dorchester before broadening across a wide flood plain and meandering through West Stafford…
Flies for this beat
Expected in October on the River Frome
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 Frome and the months it usually runs.
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FAQ
The Watery Beat FAQs
Practical questions anglers ask before fishing The Watery Beat, from tickets to tactics.
