Feedback & Reports

We only only fished the evening and due to the levels the wooded area below lucky stone wasn't accessible, we opted to fish the the first few swims below and were rewarded with 10 chub all of a good size 4-5lb and a barbel to 8.5-9lb
Note. This has a long walk involving some steep hills due to no access through the woods so travel lights but enjoy

1 Barbel, 10 Chub

River in good condition nice day near hut

4 Barbel, 9 Chub

River still quite high from the previous two days but fallen to a fishable level although the flow remained fast.
The wood and lucky stone section inaccessible due to wet and slippery conditions.
Fished the bottom end of the first field. Plenty of chub to be had on the feeder. All on meat & pellet.

22 Chub

8 Chub

Good day at Fownhope after blanking on our last couple of visits there. All barbel came between 6:00 and 7:15 like someone had clicked a switch! Very enjoyable session despite high winds and rain.

5 Barbel, 30 Chub

Great day on this lovely stretch of the Wye, one fished the top section near the hut and the other had a long walk down to the woods, lots of Chub everywhere and occasional Barbel up to 9 lbs 4 oz, Had Chub mostly on meat and Barbel on pellets

8 Barbel, 35 Chub

The weather was like four seasons in one day with a mix of cold winds , glorious sunshine and showers . Got to the river about 11:30 and was looking lower than I anticipated.
A few anglers fishing my usual pegs , which surprised me as I’ve never seen anglers down this end ,so set up further upstream .The rocks are the main attraction here usually so good to see anglers using the alternative ( there’s more to Fownhope than the rocks !)
Had a fish on the first cast , then missed a rod wrenching take on my second , this got me thinking I was in for a busy day , but the swim went cold for some time . Last light gifted me two more lovely specimens so ended the day on a high .
All fish were of a nice size , biggest 9lb smallest 7lb , and a cracking chub at 4lb . All caught on a variety of pellets , great day !

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

The biggest barbel was a cracking fish at 9lb 5oz. 12 chub up to 4lb. Fish seemed to go off the feed in the evening time

2 Barbel, 12 Chub

Really good days fishing and fish biting throughout the day. The trek over the hill, and through the woods is a bit hard work, but worth it. All fish caught on boilies and luncheon meat, mainly on feeder, but I got snagged up quite a bit, although my son fishing up stream end didn't get snagged at all. I caught a couple trotting, but didn't bring enough free offerings to really get them going.

The other fish was an eel of about 2 pounds

22 Chub, 1 Other

Well Fownhope 5 didn’t disappoint again. Close on 250lb of chub between the 2 of us on feeder tactics but sadly only 7 barbel to around 7 pound. All caught firstly from the far field other side of woods then a move to the rocks around midday saw so many more chub and the few barbel grace our nets.

7 Barbel, 82 Chub