Feedback & Reports

First of three days back on the wye begins here at holme lacy 3 and no better place to begin all three of us catching some lovely chub and barbel excellent start hopefully the next two will be as good
SG 75 chub and 3 berbel MH 65 chub SM 60 chub.

3 Barbel, 200 Chub

10 Chub

107 Chub

River nearly over its banks, unfishable

2 Chub

1 Brown trout caught

1 Trout

river low chub to pellet feeder

3 Chub

New venue this one for me. Really lovely place to be. Struggled early on to locate any fish. Wind on water made it difficult to read swims. Weather was glorious for February though with lots of sunshine. Finally found some good fish with biggest Barbel at 7lb. Thoroughly enjoyable day out on the Wye.

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

A glorious day to be out anywhere let alone on the banks of the Wye and with a 9 degree air and 7.7 degree water temperature my expectations were high, although the water was crystal clear.
A blank hour halfway down the straight meant a move to the bend where I had 4 good chub on the stick with hemp and maggot. Two short sessions on the feeder in swims below produced nothing so I moved back up to the last swim on the straight. Just as I'd returned chub number 5 caught on the feeder Colin the ghillie turned up. I had number 6 whilst chatting to him and he advised trying the steps to end the day. I pulled out of another good chub after he'd gone and nearly didn't move but it did look more barbely where he suggested so I trusted his judgement. Good job as half hour later I had a rattly drop back on maggot feeder and managed to hang onto a 6lb barbel to end a lovely February day on the river.

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

Weather was very mild for this time of year, with very little wind. We started on float and persevered until 1pm, the only bite was a trout that acrobatically threw the hook.

Then my fishing partner tried a maggot feeder with instant success, from then on it was pretty regular bites from the chub.

I did try the float over the fish again to see if I could tempt them but they, didn't seem interested in a moving bait.

The surprise barbel came just as the sun hit the horizon.

1 Barbel, 23 Chub