River guide
River Tywi in Carmarthenshire
2 checked stretches so far — day tickets, club waters and guest tickets, each checked against the club's own pages.
The lowdown
The River Tywi through Carmarthenshire is a proper big-river system, with deep pools, runs and glides giving anglers plenty of water to explore. Cymdeithas Pysgota Llandeilo Angling Association manages or owns around 9 miles of the main river.
It’s best known here for prime sewin fishing, with salmon also present and particularly notable during the autumn months. The association’s wider day-ticket offer gives access to over 7 miles of River Tywi fishing.
Close season reminder
Coarse fishing on English rivers is closed from 15 March to 15 June inclusive. That's the law for coarse fish on rivers — it's not a club rule, and game-fishing seasons work differently.
GOV.UK — Freshwater rod fishing rules: when and where you can fishStretches
2 of 2 checked stretches. No rankings — we don't know which is "best" on your day, and neither does anyone else.
Llandeilo Bridge Beat, River Tywi
River Tywi · Day ticket or members
Llandeilo Bridge Beat is one of Cymdeithas Pysgota Llandeilo Angling Association’s named River Tywi beats. Proper classic Tywi water, with deep pools, runs and glides, and prime sewin fishing through the season.
Checked 12 Oct 2026
Llandovery Angling Association Lower Water, River Tywi
River Tywi · Day ticket
A cracking bit of Tywi below Llandovery, with over three miles of double-bank water from just below the chain bridge down to Cwmgwyn Farm. It’s classic sewin water, with deep pools, lively runs and clean gravel underfoot.
Checked 12 Oct 2026
Pins mark the access postcode each club gives, not the bank itself. Exact boundary map: see rights holder.
Access & tickets
Adult day ticket
Cymdeithas Pysgota Llandeilo Angling Association
Valid for 24 hours from purchase. Buy through Clubmate, Nice Price News in Llandeilo, or the linked Fishing Passport booking route.
£25 (as listed 12/10/2026)
Covers: Llandeilo Bridge Beat, River Tywi
Adult weekly ticket
Cymdeithas Pysgota Llandeilo Angling Association
Valid for 7 days from purchase.
£75 (as listed 12/10/2026)
Covers: Llandeilo Bridge Beat, River Tywi
Full-water daily permit
Llandovery Angling Association
For sewin and brown trout
£25 (as listed 12/10/2026)
Covers: Llandovery Angling Association Lower Water, River Tywi
Full-water weekly permit
Llandovery Angling Association
Full-water permit
£135 (as listed 12/10/2026)
Covers: Llandovery Angling Association Lower Water, River Tywi
Junior day permit
Llandovery Angling Association
Junior permit
£5 (as listed 12/10/2026)
Covers: Llandovery Angling Association Lower Water, River Tywi
Species
We only tag a stretch with a fish when the club names it. Some clubs name fish across all their water rather than stretch by stretch — those are flagged on the card.
| Stretch | Trout | Chub |
|---|---|---|
| Llandeilo Bridge Beat, River Tywi | ● | |
| Llandovery Angling Association Lower Water, River Tywi | ● | ● |
● named by the club for this stretch · ●* named across the club's waters · blank = not named (not "absent").
Rules — who runs what
Cymdeithas Pysgota Llandeilo Angling Association
Tickets can be bought online through Clubmate, or from Nice Price News, 95 Rhosmaen Street, Llandeilo. The association also links to online booking through Fishing Passport; carry your permit while fishing.
Club pageLlandovery Angling Association
Permits are available from Castle Hotel Llandovery, Llandovery Rugby Club Caravan Park and other listed local outlets. The holder provides maps showing access, boundaries and parking information.
Club pageFished the river recently?
Pick the stretch you fished and add a 20-second update there — one stretch at a time keeps it useful.
Each stretch page lists its own key rules. You'll need an Environment Agency rod licence on all of them.
River levels
Measured readings straight from the Environment Agency. These are the nearest gauges we've matched — not readings from the stretches themselves.
No Environment Agency gauge matched on this river near these stretches yet.
Tips & reports
Our take (editorial, not club advice): on any decent-sized river, a lead that holds bottom without dragging is half the battle — go up in weight before you go up in bait. A bit of extra colour after rain often brings barbel and bream closer in, but a fast-rising, debris-filled river is dangerous; if in doubt, don't. Weather tools built for still lakes don't translate neatly to rivers, so we haven't bolted a lake-style weather score on here.
No angler reports on these stretches yet — we'll only show real ones once our moderated river reports are live.
Where this comes from · checked 12 Oct 2026
- GOV.UK — Freshwater rod fishing rules: when and where you can fish
- Cymdeithas Pysgota Llandeilo Angling Association — home (llandeiloangling.co.uk)
- Llandovery Angling Association — home (llandoveryaa.co.uk)
Rules, prices and ticket availability change — the rights holder's own page always wins.