The three miles of the River Kennet at Barton Court lie to the east of Hungerford, generally regarded as the best section of this Berkshire chalkstream. It is stocked with both brown and rainbow trout and rods have free range over the entire system of main river, carriers and side streams. 

With a four fish limit, with catch and release thereafter, good facilities and easy access, Barton Court offers everything you could want from a day’s fishing.

The Dundas Arms is perfect for lunch, dinner and a lovely place to stay. 

River Kennet Coarse Fishing

3½ miles of rivers

Season 1st October to March 14th

Telephone bookings only call 01488 658905

Cost £20 per rod

Maximum 10 Rods per day

Club Bookings for whole day available

Fly Fishing
River Kennet – Chalk Stream Fishing 2016 season

3½ miles of rivers

Season: 1st May – September 30th

Season rods available
       £1,445 full rod 1 day per week 
       £735 ½rod 1 day per fortnight

Day rods:

May 1st to 13th = £107 

                     May 14th to June 14th = £137 

                     June 15th to July 31st = £107 

                     August 1st to Sept 30th = £97 

                     no ½days

4 fish limit/catch & release thereafter

Maximun 8 rods per day

No rod sharing

Stocked with Brown Trout & some Rainbows

River Kennet

The River Kennet rises west of Avebury and travels eastwards through Marlborough and out of Wiltshire into Berkshire towards Newbury. The Kennet’s principal tributaries are the River Lambourn, the River Enborne and the Foudry Brook. Though it is only 22 miles from the source to Newbury, there are more than 80 miles of fishable water due to the veritable maze of carriers created by the 18th-century water engineers.

In its heyday, between the wars, Kennet fishermen considered their river superior to the River Test and it is true that the Kennet around Kintbury gets a mayfly hatch as every bit as good and dense as the Test.

This Wiltshire/Berkshire river features heavily in fly fishing literature: Halford had a lease on a considerable length of water in the late 1800’s, John Waller Hills fished it regularly and often wrote about the native Kennet trout, known as the ‘greenback’, now a much sought-after rarity. Frank Sawyer, inventor of the Pheasant Tail Nymph, ran his summer school from the grounds of Marlbough College in the 1970s.

I just took a walk along this river whilst passing and there are some very big fish moving around. 

Very well maintained stretch of river.