Feedback & Reports

We started early getting to the River for 5 in the morning. River conditions were coloured with a little bit of extra flow. This is a beautiful spot to fish with the weir gardens opposite it only took the first 15 minutes to get the first chub on the bank the bites then came steadily throughout the day with the bulk of the action coming in the early morning. We caught a few clonking chub to over 6lb but the average was 4 lb biggest barbel was 8 lbs that gave me the fight of my life. This was our first time on the Wye and we will definitely be returning and recommending to others.

4 Barbel, 16 Chub

River levels very high for summer, approximately 1.6m at start of day and then dropping very slowly; - water coloured.
Fished opposite the Weir Gardens, but this is a very long walk from the car park, even when carrying the minimum of gear. Taking a tackle box plus accessories, would make it an SAS route march. However, access to the swims at the water's edge was easy.
Even though the river levels were high and the river was pushing through very fast, caught a personal best barbel of 9lb 3oz. My brother, who had never fished for barbel before, caught a 7lb 8oz barbel. He also lost what was probably a very large carp, but we never saw the fish. Also had a 3ib 1oz chub.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

River up about 18 inches and still carrying colour. Barbel to 8lbs and chub mainly around 3lbs with a couple at 5lbs. Fish to boilies and meat baits.

4 Barbel, 15 Chub

Arrived at the river 8:00am. It was running about 3 to 4 foot over with a bit of colour but it looked good and we anticipated a productive day. We never even had a single bite all day. We tried various swims along the stretch but to no avail.....so at 4:00pm we decided to call it quits. It looks an interesting piece of river and I would like to try it again in the summer but today we were badly beaten.......nothing to report!!!

Lovely day on a cracking beat. 2 small pike landed.

2 Pike

River high and rising from melt water. A lot of colour to the water. Coarse fishing with pellet. Trout about 2lbs a happy accident. Trout very silver and may possibly have been a sea trout.

1 Trout

Pike fished the whole beat, blanked, fell over, got cold.

Only ended up fishing for a couple of hours following a long drive and exploring the beat for the first time. Luke caught a pike just over 9lbs.

1 Pike

River was low although carrying some colour following recent rain. We fished numerous swims and struggled to find any feeding fish. SB took a 9lb 4oz barbel on pellet from the top of the stretch and also lost one. RB found a few barbel to 7lb in the middle section late afternoon.
All in all a tough day but thoroughly enjoyable as ever.

4 Barbel

No fish, river low and clear