Feedback & Reports

Excellent days fishing with great help and advice from Mick. A number of fish showing, particularly at the Vanstone. Middle of the day (1030/1330) proved to be a steady interruption of canoes and kayaks which proved difficult to fish through. Afternoon quieter, but no fish had the decency to sample my fly on this occasion !
I will return

Thank you to Mick for an enjoyable day. 7 inches on Fownhope gauge with moderate tint of colour in the river still. 4th cast of the day with a small yellow and black tube into the Vanstone Pool hooked a decent fish. I was a bit over eager for my 15 year old son to land his first salmon which may have happened but for my antiquated reel. Next time I will play the fish out a bit more and have purchased a new reel! 1 shad caught in the evening.

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A perfect fishing day. Water a little coloured is my only excuse. Didn't see a fish all day, but the beat has benefitted greatly from Micks influence with all pools obvious and a delight to fish. Had every confidence of a Salmon, but alas only shad could see the fly!

1 Other

Fownhope at 11". Water dropping back after a short dirty rise. Fished in the evening as the visibility was just starting to come back. Nothing seen or touched.

Water was very dirty with wash off from the fields. Mick the ghillie put me on lots of fish but none were interested. Over the day I must seen 10 different salmon. Great beat, great advice from Mick I will return soon.

Salmon caught of fly from the Stones pool 12 lbs

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I know that the salmon itself determines what fly at what depth and of which size it will take and that almost all salmon (most of the time) behave differently to each other. But it is high time and the right time for them to begin taking small flies on a floating line!! Clearly the salmon in the Wye have not read their salmon fishing books and need to bone up on AHE Wood, Jock Scott and others before leaving the estuary. One slow draw and a thump on the dangle is not sufficient to call these salmon in Goodrich well read...lovely beat and glad to be fishing it regularly after an absence of twenty years.

Good day all round, river had slight tinge of colour but still good for the fly. Banks and paths to the pools well manicured , Mick has certainly been working hard. Saw two fish moving in the Vanstone Pool late afternoon and soon hooked one about 10lb on 3/4" tube only to lose it after 5 mins . rested the pool for 1/2 hour and tried again to no avail then had last few casts with FC and made contact half way down the pool & after a strong fight landed a silver cock 18 - 20lb

1 Salmon

Lovely half day. Let the other rod take the Vanstone first in the afternoon when I arrived while I went up to the Dog Hole. He caught 2 lovely fish. I did have a fish on as well in the Dog Hole on fly but it was not to be.
Really exciting day when you felt you could have a fish at any moment.

Chris Howell caught his first ever salmon from the Vanstone pool. Fresh Fish weighed 11 lbs and took a F/C.
A H lost a fly caught fish at the net from the dog hole.
Mick gave a great introduction to the water.

1 Salmon