Welcome to the first full season of the Peak Angling Passport Scheme! There are 12 beats available in the wonderful surroundings of the Derbyshire and Staffordshire Peak District. All the beats are on private land, accessible only with permission of the landowner through the Peak Angling Passport Scheme. Do keep an eye on this website for the latest information.

The Trent Rivers Trust is working hard to protect and improve river habitat and water quality by working in partnership with landowners, farmers, statutory bodies, angling clubs and other organisations. The angling passport scheme is an important part of this work and the aims of the scheme are to bring income to areas where river habitat improvement works have been carried out or are planned, by providing access for anglers. By providing a sustainable income to farmers and landowners we hope it will help to protect the rivers for the future.

As these beats are on private property please remember that access is by kind permission of the landowner. The success of the scheme relies on trust, both on the part of the angler and the landowner.

Andrew Heath is the Trent Rivers Trust Project Officer responsible for organising the Peak Angling Passport scheme and environmental improvements on rivers in this part of the Peak District. Look out for him on the river bank and show him your tokens and licence, and he will give you the latest news on which beats are fishing well, flies and tactics.

How it works

The Peak Angling Passport is a scheme providing flexible access to a number of fishing beats through a payment system using tokens. There is a wide choice of fishing on offer from fast-flowing moorland streams with quick-rising fish to slower meandering beats where there is a chance of a specimen. Wild brown trout are the target species, although there are one or two good grayling in some of the beats.

Peak Angling Passport tokens cost 2.50 each and are available in books of five (12.50 per book) or ten (25.00).  To buy tokens visite our online shop.  The tokens are valid for any beat but can be used only once. The beats are rated according to their quality and amount of fishing available, and the number of tokens required to fish each beat varies, check the individual beat descriptions.

Tokens come in two parts, the first is posted in a marked token box before fishing, located near or adjacent to the designated parking place. The second part of the tokens is the catch return to be completed and posted in the same token box when you have finished fishing. Please make sure you complete a catch
return (even if it is a nil return), this information is essential for monitoring the progress of our river improvement works.

Please note that there are different arrangements for accessing the Raikes beat and Cottons Fishing House beat on the Dove. These are only available on certain days and must be prebooked. Please check the individual beat descriptions.

Beats

Please note the links below take you to an external website.

River Dove – Vicarage
River Dove – Bank Top
River Dove – Mill Lane
River Dove – Raikes
River Dove – Cotton’s Fishing House
River Manifold – Windy Arbour Bridge
River Manifold – Froghall
River Manifold & Blake Brook – Rewlach
River Manifold – Marsh House
River Manifold – Hulme End Bridge
River Hamps – Fold Farm
River Sence – Tuckers Holt