This stretch of the Medway is wider than the river above the town normally with a slow flow and an average depth of six feet. This stretch fishes well from the start of the season, with roach and bream being the main target species; the gravel areas tend to produce the better caches of roach, chub and dace. The bream often show, along with roach, in the mud areas. Although hemp and caster works well here, the top bait (for quality fish) last season was sweetcorn. Large perch and good chub in excess of 4lb are also present in large numbers. With occasional pike and a few double figure carp, the large bream shoal normally located at the mouth of the muck stream can give excellent sport, 115lb the best recorded weight to date. Exceptionally large nets of roach are recorded when the river level drops in the winter. The fish tend to shoal up in the upper section immediately above and below Cannon Bridge,

Botany Stream (Muck Stream) is a narrow, shallow backwater which produces plenty of small roach and occasionally larger chub and bream. A couple of surprise grass carp were caught last season when they picked up luncheon meat intended for chub