RIVER KENT

Tickets: Sold by us on behalf of Kent (Westmorland) Angling Assoc. Other tickets available as listed below.

Directions: From Junction 36 on M6 motorway take the A591 to Kendal. Fishing available on the river both above and below Kendal.

The river rises above Kentmere and flows into Morecambe Bay and is generally a highly productive Salmon and Sea Trout river and 1999 saw incredible runs of very large Sea Trout well in excess of 10lbs.

Brown Trout grow to maximum of 7lbs although any fish over 3lbs is very good one with the average being about 12-14oz. Virtually no one fishes for the Brown Trout so before June you usually have the river to yourself. Most of the river bed is limestone and is virtually all rocky apart from the tidal stretch at Low Levens which is muddy.

The main day and weekly ticket water is controlled by Kent (Westmorland) Angling Association who covers most of the river from just south of Burneside to Sedgwick about 4 miles south of Kendal. Ticket prices vary according to the time of year with the cheaper fishing being prior to 31 May. No day tickets are available after 31 August.

Fishing on the association water is by fly, spinner or worm only and there are a couple of short stretches where fishing is restricted to fly only. All methods work well and probably the fly is best for Brown and Sea Trout. It is best to contact us at the shop as to what is working as the river is a spate one and can be in good fishing order one day and two days later is back at Summer level. If intending to travel any distance please contact us as invariably when it rains in York, London or Manchester we are suffering low water conditions.

Day tickets can be obtained for Staveley Anglers water from the Woof's newsagents in Staveley. There is good Trout fishing and very good Autumn Salmon fishing and you can use shrimp on this stretch of water.

Tickets are also available for Burneside Angling Association's water at Burneside from the Jolly Anglers pub in Burneside. This is only a short stretch but is productive and some of the best Brown Trout on the river are found here.

All the river from Force Bridge at Sedgwick to below Low Levens Farm is strictly private but day, week and season permits can be got from Mrs Parsons at the farm bungalow for the tidal stretch downstream of the farm. This is predominately Salmon and Sea Trout water with very few Brown Trout. It fishes best on a fining spate and if one coincides with a big tide the fishing is superb to spinners and worms but fly fishing also works.

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