Durham City Council permits free fishing upstream from Kepier Farm to 50 yards below Framwellgate Bridge and along the rowing course on either side of Baths Bridge: just over a mile in total.  

The Wear is a good mixed fishery, with salmon and sea trout into double figures as well as barbel, chub, roach, dace, and trout to 5lbs in freakish and fortunate  cases.

Ferens Park is heavily fished with all methods and all types of anglers, so a subtle imitative approach can pay dividends.  The river’s most famous traditional fly is the Greenwell’s Glory, reputedly invented by Canon Greenwell as an olive imitation in the 1850s, and it’s still a pattern that performs well in dry, wet and spider tyings.