Feedback & Reports

We arrived at 8:30am and decided to fish the far end downstream of the car park, I got a barbel 1st cast using my split cane rod best fight ever. David had 2 chub straight away fishing the island pegs, then it went quiet. We both caught chub after lunchtime at a regular rate but the barbel weren't playing. Then at about 4'ish we had moved to the straight run just as we've not really fished that properly, I then had a rod wrenching bite which resulted in a 9lbs 8oz barbel in great nick. David then resorted to using smelly cheese which got him a couple more chub and a barbel of about 3lbs. The beat looked in good shape. I love this beat not only for the catching but the solitude. Most fish were caught on elips pellets and smelly cheese. Thanks WUF be back soon.

4 Barbel, 30 Chub

5 Barbel, 30 Chub

2 Barbel, 20 Chub

5 Barbel and 30+ Chub mental day run out of supplies in the end and left for a beer or two

5 Barbel, 39 Chub

2 Barbel, 10 Chub

River levels are returning to normal but not there yet. River is still pushing through at a rate which is challenging.
Regardless we (only 2 anglers) managed to catch

2 Barbel, 9 Chub

2 Barbel

Did not fish river to high and pushing through

Did not fish due to heavy rain and gale force winds

My first time time to this beat and it won't be my last. A really well managed and very scenic part of the Wye with easy access to all of the pegs.

I managed to catch 5 decent size Chub with feeder tactics in the middle section. I lost one good barbel to a hook pull which was a little annoying so need to check those in the future. The river was pushing through at about 1m but falling during the day so decided not to try a trot which may have been a mistake although controlling the float would have been a bit tricky.

The lack of barbel was probably down to my angling experience rather than anything else looking at previous posts and I would thoroughly recommend a day's fishing here.

5 Chub