Feedback & Reports

I've never seen this stretch quite as low and it was no surprise not to catch anything. Did see the shad spawning which was a very memorable sight , there must have been over 200 on the gravel beds.

Lovely sunny afternoon. Reasonable hatch of fly but little rising. One 3/4 lb brown on the dry fly and large chub on the nymph. Beautiful peaceful stretch of the wye.

1 Trout, 1 Chub

A salmon of 12 lb from beat 5 on a flying C. Saw a few fish moving although the general feel was that there were not that many fish in the river. Can you please rewrite the directions to the pools, we wasted an hour trying to find them , particularly the right hand bank of beat 5 which bore no relation to the instructions given.

WUF Note : Congratulations on the salmon and thank you for the feedback on the directions. Whilst this is the first time we have heard of anyone having difficulty in finding Beat 5, we have looked at the information supplied and made improvement where necessary.

1 Salmon

Water still murky in morning but river dropped a touch in level. Had a lovely brownie 2lb (first Wye brown) on beat 3, mid afternoon on stonefly nymph right at the bottom only a few meters out from bank. My friend had a small brownie 0.5lb same fly but further to middle of river beat 3.
Had seen some nice rises on beat 2 just before the Eyot but time ran out.

2 Trout

Fished beat 2 from 13:00 - 15:00. Beautiful stretch of water and good casting practice.

Visiting from South Africa so just HAD to try for salmon with the double-hander I so rarely get to use. Fished beats 4 and 5 in the afternoon. Trout rising with intent when I got to the river. Thought about getting the 4wt from the car but they turned off again after about 30 minutes. Fished till 20:00, weather was a bit challenging but being alone on such a beatiful river more than made up for the cold and lack of silver.

22lb fresh hen fish caught on a flying C from Loxters Pool and safely returned

1 Salmon