River guide
River Wye in Powys
2 checked stretches so far — day tickets, club waters and guest tickets, each checked against the club's own pages.
The lowdown
The Wye in Herefordshire includes proper urban fishing in Hereford itself. Belmont’s south-bank water pairs a busy city-centre setting and tarmac paths with a deep, steady run — a useful reminder that a river session here needn’t mean heading out into the countryside.
There’s a broad mix of fish listed for this part of the Wye, from roach and perch to chub, barbel and specimen carp. Match fishing is part of the picture too, so checking fixtures and ticket restrictions is a sensible bit of planning before a Hereford river trip.
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.
The Rectory Beat
River Wye · Day ticket or season rod
The Rectory Beat is a cracking upper-Wye stretch at Boughrood, a few miles upstream of Hay-on-Wye. Wye Fishing Ltd runs about 2.5 miles of fishing, with the Black Mountains making a proper backdrop.
Checked 12 Oct 2026
River Wye – Rhayader Angling Association Water
River Wye · Day ticket or season permit
A cracking five-mile run of the River Wye around Rhayader, stretching from roughly a mile south of town to four miles north. It’s association water with brown trout, grayling and salmon fishing, plus coarse fishing listed on the permit page.
Checked 12 Oct 2026
Pins mark the access postcode each club gives, not the bank itself. Exact boundary map: see rights holder.
Access & tickets
Full-day ticket
Wye Fishing Ltd
Advertised full-day ticket for The Rectory Beat.
£23.50 (as listed 12/10/2026)
Covers: The Rectory Beat
Season rod
Wye Fishing Ltd
Season rods are available.
Covers: The Rectory Beat
River Wye day permit
Rhayader and Elan Valley Angling Association
£15 (as listed 12/10/2026)
Covers: River Wye – Rhayader Angling Association Water
Ordinary river season permit
Rhayader and Elan Valley Angling Association
£40 (as listed 12/10/2026)
Covers: River Wye – Rhayader Angling Association Water
OAP or disabled day permit
Rhayader and Elan Valley Angling Association
£15 (as listed 12/10/2026)
Covers: River Wye – Rhayader Angling Association Water
OAP or disabled season permit
Rhayader and Elan Valley Angling Association
£40 (as listed 12/10/2026)
Covers: River Wye – Rhayader Angling Association Water
Junior day permit
Rhayader and Elan Valley Angling Association
£3 (as listed 12/10/2026)
Covers: River Wye – Rhayader Angling Association Water
Junior season permit
Rhayader and Elan Valley Angling Association
Covers all association club waters.
£25 (as listed 12/10/2026)
Covers: River Wye – Rhayader Angling Association Water
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 | Tench | Bream | Roach | Pike | Perch | Barbel | Catfish | Trout | Rudd | Chub | Crucian carp | Eel | Zander |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Rectory Beat | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| River Wye – Rhayader Angling Association Water | ● |
● named by the club for this stretch · ●* named across the club's waters · blank = not named (not "absent").
Rules — who runs what
Wye Fishing Ltd
Day tickets can be booked online or by telephone through Wye Fishing Ltd. Season rods are also available.
Rhayader and Elan Valley Angling Association
Permits are listed by Rhayader and Elan Valley Angling Association. The checked details give the permit prices, but do not state a specific purchase method.
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
- Wye Fishing Ltd — home (wyefishing.com)
- Rhayader and Elan Valley Angling Association — home (rhayaderangling.co.uk)
Rules, prices and ticket availability change — the rights holder's own page always wins.