River guide
River Wye in Monmouthshire / Gloucestershire
1 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
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
Senior membership
Newport Angling Association
Newport Angling Association published fee
£80 (as listed 13/10/2026)
Covers: River Wye, Bigsweir
Senior-citizen membership
Newport Angling Association
Newport Angling Association published fee
£50 (as listed 13/10/2026)
Covers: River Wye, Bigsweir
Junior membership
Newport Angling Association
Newport Angling Association published fee
£30 (as listed 13/10/2026)
Covers: River Wye, Bigsweir
Joining fee
Newport Angling Association
Published joining fee
£25 (as listed 13/10/2026)
Covers: River Wye, Bigsweir
Gate key
Newport Angling Association
Published gate-key charge
£10 (as listed 13/10/2026)
Covers: River Wye, Bigsweir
Night-fishing supplement
Newport Angling Association
Published supplement; night fishing is not permitted at Lower Bigsweir
£70 (as listed 13/10/2026)
Covers: River Wye, Bigsweir
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 | Pike | Barbel | Chub |
|---|---|---|---|
| River Wye, Bigsweir | ● | ● | ● |
● named by the club for this stretch · ●* named across the club's waters · blank = not named (not "absent").
Rules — who runs what
Newport Angling Association owns the fishing rights. Buy a day ticket for Beats 1 and 2 through the Clubmate booking service linked from the association’s day-ticket page.
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
Lydbrook 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 13 Oct 2026
- GOV.UK — Freshwater rod fishing rules: when and where you can fish
- Newport Angling Association — river wye symonds yat (newportanglingassociation.co.uk)
Rules, prices and ticket availability change — the rights holder's own page always wins.