Feedback & Reports

Beautiful day to be beside the river with your mates but fishing wise hard going with bright sunshine & low water conditions. We all enjoyed watching the fledgeling sandmartins flying out of their burrows, doing a quick circuit & scrambling back up the bank face into their nests only to pop out for more practice a few minutes later; The anxious or maybe excited parents flying overhead in great flocks twittering away. Plenty of very busy kingfishers whirring up & down as well.

The 'other' was unusual! We have all heard of wildlife being 'hooked' other than fish that is. Bats whilst casting a fly in the evening, waterbirds when using crust baits, seagulls when sea fishing & even rats whilst leaving an unattended hookbait beside a pond where there's a lot of disguarded baits. But my friend was reeling in what he thought might have been a small barbel , when 2 or 3 feet from the bank up through the water came a squirrel hooked firmly in the upper lip. He said it took some umbridge at being un hooked.

A very de-stressing day followed by a lovely evening as the sun set.

Thanks WUF as usual.

3 Barbel, 5 Chub, 1 Other

30 Chub

3 Chub

Great day , Fished from lunch till sunset , Few hours in between each catch , ledger tactics .

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Hard going, found a few likely looking places but only had a a few bites

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

What a frustrating day and yet exciting. Fished Beat 2 just downstream from the island. Plenty of water movement and quite windy blowing downstream. So first the frustration - I missed a barbel (more later) - and loads of canoe traffic. The wind and current meant it was virtually impossible to keep bait and feeder still in the gullies. I probably wasn't fishing heavy enough so even a 30g feeder full of groundbait and a 12 or 15mm pellet as hook bait was washing downstream very quickly. Line was also being dragged by the current.

Now the exciting bits, when it was possible to hold bait in position I had a number of bites culminating at about 10:00 with a solid take from what was easily a low double figure barbel. Just out of range of my landing net it simply sat dead weight on the bottom of about 3 - 4 feet of water, and then in one sudden upward lunge it snapped my hook length about 3 inches above the hook. It would have been my first Wye barbel and definitely means I'll be coming back for more. No other bites were converted.

Tuition time for 4 novice fishermen... they all enjoyed their day but no catches to report unfortunately; Well that's not entirely true, one intrepid caster, once he'd mastered the bale- arm business did manage to 'catch' the opposite bank four times ,losing all the end tackle each time. I only hope he catches a fish soon or the enthusiasm may wane a little?
As usual a beautiful spot to spend an evening.
Thanks WUF.

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A Fantastic days fishing, fished Beat 2 using cage feeders and halibut pellet.
All fish in stunning condition would highly recommend using The fishing Passport.
We will definitely be coming again.
2 Others were Dace.

8 Barbel, 4 Chub, 2 Other

A great days fishing in mixed weather conditions in Beats 4 and 5. Fished first light until dusk for two Chub and two Barbel, caught on paste wrapped boilie and groundbait/pellet feeder. River level dropping throughout the day. First visit to the Wye and hopefully not my last. Would highly recommend The Fishing Passport.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub