RIVER NORTH WEY/FARNHAM/SURREY/SOUTHEAST

The Wey is an important tributary of the Thames in southeast England. Fishing is from the north bank in Farnham and you can reach it by public paths. The river here is shallow overall, but there are a number of large chub out and about who will take a fly, perhaps a breadcrumb fly?

The North Wey’s brown trout are a muscular 2lbs and a few beyond.  There are also healthy populations of dace, roach, gudgeon, chub, carp and pike. Grayling were stocked here in the 1980s, but we’ve not heard of any being caught recently. If you’re fly fishing, weighted shrimp patterns will help you get down into the weir pools and the deeper water at the downstream end of the fishery.