Famous Dartmoor game fishing beats for sale

A five mile-plus stretch of one of the West Country’s most famous game fishing rivers running through Dartmoor has come up for sale through fisheries sales experts Fenn Wright.

The three beats on the River Teign, 10 miles from Exeter, are renowned for their trout and salmon catches, and are offered at a total guide price of £300,000.

Known as The Upper Teign Fishery and let for many years to a fishing association, catches averaged out over the last ten years amount to 30 salmon per annum, 114 sea trout and 920 brown trout over seven inches long. The best year for salmon was 2008 when 92 were caught, while sea trout catches peaked two years later in 2010 with 183 recorded.

The north and south Teign rivers rise high in the Dartmoor moorland and join together near Chagford, to run down through a dramatic woodland gorge towards Newton Abbot where it becomes tidal, and Teignmouth where it reaches the sea.

The top beat runs for approximately one mile on the south bank of the river from Daubeney’s Pit to Fingle Bridge and often accounts for most of the trout catches. If bought separately, the guide price for this beat is £50,000. 

The middle beat of some 2.7 miles provides the largest variety of pools and some of the best brown trout fishing, with Upperton Weir being the biggest pool of the fishery and the most popular for sea trout fishing. Guide price is £200,000.

The bottom beat lies mostly within the Dunsford Nature Reserve, and Druids Pool is renowned for its salmon. Fly fishing for trout is ideal along the whole stretch from Clifford Bridge to the end of the beat, which runs for approximately 1.58 miles. £50,000 is the guide price for this beat.

Full details of The Upper Teign Fishery are available from Fenn Wright on 01206 216555 or visit the website fisheries 4sale.com.