Members’ water on the Darent, Great Stour and Teise, and trout lakes at Spring Hill, Stowting, Chequertree and Tenterden that sell day tickets

Fly Fishing in Kent

The Great Stour and the River Darent, plus 1 more river. 14 bookable beats between them, with prices, seasons and who to book through in one place.

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Four ways into Kent

Most people arrive here with one of these four questions. Pick the one that sounds like yours.

What a day costs Compare prices Month-by-month day-ticket rates across every river we hold pricing for. Stay and fish Fisheries and estates Operators taking bookings, some with rooms and equipment hire.

Where to fly fish in Kent

Every beat and fishery we list in the county, plotted against the boundary. Click a river to read what that stretch is like.

Fly fishing rivers in Kent

Every river we list in Kent, busiest first.

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Great Stour

2 beats

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River Darent

2 beats

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River Teise

1 beat

Day ticket fly fishing in Kent

14 beats in Kent

Day tickets and permits on Kent's rivers. Each listing includes pricing, species, and booking details.

Brown Trout 9 Stillwaters 9 Rainbow Trout 8 Wild Only 2 Wading Allowed 1 Grayling 1

River Darent

River Darent, Shoreham to Farningham

On enquiry

River Darent

River Darent, Lullingstone Castle

On enquiry

Great Stour

Great Stour, Chilham Mill

On enquiry 2 rods

Lullingstone Castle Lake

On enquiry

Spring Hill Trout Waters

£37 for 2 fish

Stowting Trout Lake

£17 per evening

Penshurst Park Lakes

On enquiry

River Teise

River Teise, Goudhurst, Marden and Collier Street

On enquiry

Chequertree Fishery

Chequertree Fishery, Trout Lake

£25 per rod

Fordwich Trout Pool

On enquiry

Millan Waters

On enquiry

Great Stour

Great Stour, Fly Section above Fordwich Bridge

On enquiry

All 2 on the Great Stour All 2 on the River Darent All 1 on the River Teise Every beat we list

Fish species in Kent

What the beats above hold, and where else in England you can fish for the same species.

Brown Trout

Grayling

Rainbow Trout

Sea Trout

Three different kinds of operator, and most visitors want the first. A fishery or estate owns the water and sells you a day on it. A club or syndicate holds water for its members, sometimes with day tickets alongside. A guide or agent sells days on water somebody else owns, and often comes with you.

Fisheries and estate waters in Kent

Fishery operators taking bookings on Kent's rivers. Each listing covers tickets, accommodation, and equipment hire where available.

Great Stour

Chilham Mill Estate

On enquiry 1 beat

Kent’s fly fishing on FishingBeats is mostly club and syndicate water on three rivers, plus a handful of trout lakes, and we list only a small part of it. The Darent is a chalk stream, the Great Stour is chalk fed from about Wye, and the Teise is a Medway tributary. Almost all the river fishing is members’ water, often with a waiting list, so the lakes are where most visitors will fish.

Darent Valley Trout Fishers lease about 3 miles of the Darent between Shoreham and Farningham, but membership is capped at 55, the waiting list is full and applications are closed until next season. The Trout Section of Kingfisher Angling & Preservation Society fishes the Darent in the grounds of Lullingstone Castle, fly only and catch and release, from 1 April to 30 September. It also has a fly lake of about 14 acres there, stocked with rainbows. Trout membership is £450 a year plus a £250 joining fee for 2026, and a member can bring one guest at £25. The Teise Anglers and Conservation Society has more than seven miles of the Teise, with brown trout, grayling and stocked rainbows, and a stocked reservoir at Marden Beech. The 2026 subscription is £370. On the Great Stour, Canterbury & District Angling Association keeps the water above Fordwich Bridge for its Fly Section, with a waiting list and a run of sea trout. Chilham Mill Estate lets about 1,250 metres to a syndicate, upstream dry fly only. It publishes no price, so ask.

The day tickets are on stillwaters. Spring Hill Trout Waters near Matfield has three spring fed waters, fly only: £37 for two fish with a 5 hour limit, £54 for four fish, or £60 to take four and release four more. You book by phone. Stowting Trout Lake is two acres below the North Downs: £30 a day, £20 for a half day or any five hours, £17 for an evening, juniors half price. Chequertree Fishery’s trout lake near Bethersden is £25 catch and release, or £35, £45 or £55 for two, three or four fish, booked and paid for in advance. Its website said the lake was closed until the autumn, so check first. Tenterden Trout Waters at Coombe Farm has three lakes totalling 5.5 acres and takes cash only. It publishes no prices, so ask when you book. Penshurst Park and Millan Waters are syndicates and sell no day tickets.

It suits a day on a Kent trout lake, or an angler ready to join a club and wait for a place on the river.

Finding fly fishing near you in Kent

The map above plots Kent's beats and fisheries against the county boundary, so you can see roughly how far a stretch is rather than just its name on a list. Tap a marker for a quick read on price and species before you go further. If you're weighing this county against somewhere else, or want to see every day-ticket beat in the country at once, the full beat map covers all of them.

A day ticket is usually a half day or a full day on the water, so it's worth weighing the drive against how much fishing you'll actually get out of it. A longer trip makes more sense for a full day than for two or three hours in the afternoon.

For scale, the Great Stour rises near Near Lenham, below the North Downs escarpment, Kent, and the River Darent rises near Springs south of Westerham, Kent. Beats sit further downstream from there, not at the source itself. The map above is the more exact guide to which stretch is closest to you.

FAQ

Kent fly fishing FAQs

The questions people ask before booking a day in Kent, answered from what we actually list.

01Is all the fly fishing in Kent private?

No. Most of the water is privately owned, but a great deal of it is let by the day. We list 4 beats in Kent you can book a day rod on without being a member of anything. Beyond that there are syndicates and clubs, which take a season ticket or a membership rather than a day ticket, and some of those run waiting lists.

02When is the fly fishing season in Kent?

Most beats run their trout season from around 1 Apr – 16 Oct, though each beat sets its own dates and the listings carry the exact ones.

03Which Kent river should I fish first?

The Great Stour has the most beats to choose from, which makes it the easiest to find a day on at short notice. Booking a ghillie for a first outing is worth the money on any of them.

04Do I need a rod licence to fish in Kent?

Yes. Anyone aged 13 or over fishing for trout, grayling, salmon or coarse fish in England needs an Environment Agency rod licence, and it is separate from whatever the beat charges you. Buy it online before you go. The beat ticket gives you the right to fish that water; the licence gives you the right to fish at all.