Feedback & Reports

Bright and sunny conditions after midweek rain had pushed the level up. River was very coloured at start of session with visibility down to a few murky brown inches. This improved as the day wore on and the level contined to drop. We had twelve good chub all on flavoured or standard luncheon meet though we did try the ubiquitous pellet. This is a lovely stretch of the Wye, will be back when it is running clear.

12 Chub, 1 Other

After two days of rain we found the river to be up around a further 2ft overnight. It was carrying quite a bit of colour and lots of debris. After some discussion we settled on pegs at the very far downstream end of the beat and occupied pegs either side of the tree with the rope swing. The river dropped a lot throughout the day but remained quite pacey.
The fishing proved to be much better than expected given the conditions. We landed a total of 19 Barbel with all of the fish being in the 6lb - 7.5lb range. The sport was steady but with a couple of purple patches when there were a lot of feeding fish around. Unusually, pellet wasn't the best bait and most fell to sweetcorn. Fewer Chub were showing today but, in my experience, they tend not to feed so well when there's lots of colour in the water.

19 Barbel, 13 Chub, 4 Other

Great looking beat, river up around five feet coloured and pacy. I fished the wood section which in hindsight was probably a mistake, as the flow was quickest here and impossible to hold bottom so had to stick to the margins. One eel, two chub 4lb each and a barbel 8lb 2oz. One more small barbel in the top section to finish the day. Many thanks W&U

2 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

River had risen overnight and was a few feet up. Walked all of the way to the woods and did have a go there, but with very limited access, fishing was difficult. Managed one chub and then decided to move. Eventually found a peg with smooth flow and had 1 barbel in the morning. I returned at 5:30pm and had another 8 barbel before they went off the feed at around 8:30.
Lots of small taps that were difficult to hit, but when I did, they turned out to be barbel! Not a single typical rod bending barbel bite all day. First fish on luncheon meat, the rest on pellets.

9 Barbel, 7 Chub

HS & DB
8 chub plus 2 barbel which one was a baby on trotted pellet

2 Barbel, 8 Chub

Lots of small knocks,lost a barbel in the rocks!had a great day otherwise! Saw a otter twice ,and feeding egrets!luvly

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

Barbel 6 to 8lbs chub 3 to 4lbs all caught on pellet and feeder.
River coloured and rising.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

Pushing through a bit to much to get in the woods.... fining down as the day went on with the fish coming steadily topped with a 9lb 2oz bar of gold

10 Barbel, 7 Chub, 1 Other

15 Barbel, 2 Chub

Great days fishing on stick float Barbel on feeder ,biggest Barbel 7.2

10 Barbel, 42 Chub