River guide
River Medway in Kent
1 checked stretches so far — day tickets, club waters and guest tickets, each checked against the club's own pages.
The lowdown
The Medway through Kent is described by MVAS as a thriving mixed fishery, with the Barming water showing that range nicely. The river can change from broad and deep to narrow and quick, with open and wooded banks, lilies, aquatic growth and reedy cover all in the mix.
Around Barming, bream are generally dominant, while chub, carp and barbel add plenty of interest. The river is closed through the main spring period, reopening on June 16; day-ticket fishing is daylight-only, so it’s a case of picking your swim and making the hours count.
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
1 of 1 checked stretches. No rankings — we don't know which is "best" on your day, and neither does anyone else.
Pins mark the access postcode each club gives, not the bank itself. Exact boundary map: see rights holder.
Access & tickets
Barming day ticket
Maidstone Victory Angling and Medway Preservation Society
Advance purchase required. Valid for the specified date and section, during daylight hours only.
£7.70 (as listed 09/10/2026)
Covers: River Medway: Barming Upstream
Environment Agency rod licence
Maidstone Victory Angling and Medway Preservation Society
Required in addition to the MVAS day ticket.
Covers: River Medway: Barming Upstream
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 | Carp | Bream | Barbel | Chub |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River Medway: Barming Upstream | ● | ● | ● | ● |
● named by the club for this stretch · ●* named across the club's waters · blank = not named (not "absent").
Rules — who runs what
Maidstone Victory Angling and Medway Preservation Society
Buy the Barming day ticket in advance through MVAS. It must be purchased before fishing and isn’t available on the bank.
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.
Measured — Environment Agency
East Farleigh Gate Upstream gauge
Nearest EA gauge we've matched — it isn't on this stretch, so levels on your peg will differ.
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We don't publish an "ideal level" — nobody can promise one. Flood water is dangerous: if it's up and coloured, stay well back from the edge. Open River Ready
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 9 Oct 2026
- GOV.UK — Freshwater rod fishing rules: when and where you can fish
- Maidstone Victory Angling and Medway Preservation Society — home (maidstonevictoryanglingsociety.com)
Rules, prices and ticket availability change — the rights holder's own page always wins.