Feedback & Reports

I stayed at lucksall campsite the night before so was able to get to the beat by 6am. Having had a very successful session here the season before, i headed straight for the pylon run to begin with and had 3 decent chub in the first 3 casts, however bites then dried up completely. Very surprised not to have a barbel here. After a biteless hour, i then moved to the first croy and caught a chub straight away, then missed a few bites. Finally had a barbel there after an hour or so. I also trotted a float down from that croy and had a nice chub and then foul hooked a barbel which i got close enough to me to see the hook was clearly in its pectoral fin before it did a swimmers roll in front of me and shed the hook. Saved me a job! Unfortunately the wind then started to really push across the river from the far bank making float presentation difficult. I had a go from the second and third croys but save for one chub on the feeder these didn't seem as productive. I headed back to the campsite at 11.30 to pack up there and have some lunch and returned around 12.30. Heading back to the first croy i didn't have particularly high hopes given the time of day, however i was getting knocks and pulls on most casts and after a four or five failed attempts i hooked another chub. No mistaking the next bite as barbel no.2 was landed. Swim then went quiet so i decided to give the pylon run another go and was rewarded by a chub and then a final barbel. With the drive back to Oxford looming i decided to go at about 5pm, i'm sure I would have caught more if i'd stayed longer. Whilst far from the most prolific day I've had on the wye, this was one of the most rewarding as moving and ringing the changes seemed to pay off. Most of the fish came to hair-rigged 14mm halibut pellets with meat and corn also accounting for a couple of the chub. Such a well cared for beat, its always a pleasure to spend some time here, definitely one of my favourite stretches. Access track around the field was ok, i took it very easy and stopped a couple of times the first round just to check that the central track didn't contain any nasty surprises... great to be able to get the car all the way to the river.

3 Barbel, 8 Chub

8 Barbel, 3 Chub

11 Barbel, 36 Chub

7 Barbel

5 Chub, 2 Other

On arrival discovered that vehicle access to the river requires driving around the LEFT hand-side of the field to get to the fishing hut parking area.
Caught plenty of chubb including some nice size fish and a nice size eel early on in the day.

12 Chub, 1 Other

Was a chub a trot on meat and hemp in the bottom pool in the morning and then in the top rapids in the evening. Didn't fish the middle of the day as too hot (28 degs). Fish from 4oz to 4lb, all pristine. Literally caught loads, lost count. A proper match angler would probably have won the Wye champs today!
No barbel caught but the chub were stripping the boilies within 5 mins of it going in so they didn't really get a chance even if they were about.
Lots of salmon jumping too.

40 Chub

3 Barbel, 30 Chub

What a lovely stretch to fish and with such care taken to cut all bank side vegetation making fishing this stretch a joy. Weather conditions were very hot and as expected river levels low. Lots of chub shoals could be seen throughout the day and with better conditions we could have easily caught more. Fish were mainly caught early morning or towards dusk when light levels were better. Caught on float and ledger with luncheon meat coming out on top followed by bollie.
Will def be returning later in the season.

15 Chub

Very much in flood, really strong wind etc so we tried for an hour or so and then left.
Also - track to the hut has changed from previous trips and now runs along the bank, it’s really narrow in places and in bad weather will be treacherous (like today).