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River still very low but had a good day. Feeder and float both caught barbel and chub. Pellets and meat for hook bait. Nice stretch but not as many swims as expected along the stretch, but plenty for the two of us.

5 Barbel, 12 Chub

Always a joy to be here here....providing you do not mind inquisitive cattle and horses....they seem to enjoy licking parked cars which is a better alternative than getting too friendly with you whilst your fishing...4 of the Barbel were small but a "good un" of 9lb capped a very enjoyable day....Trotting produced a few small Chub/Chublets and a number of Bleak which probably do not feature too high on Rods species target lists....Despite the length of the beat the swims are very limited due to the very low water and it was just as well only 2 of us fished....But a big thank you to the owners and WUF for providing us with the opportunity to fish a beautiful beat.

6 Barbel, 7 Chub, 20 Other

Had a good day trotting catching 30 chub and one small barbel all caught on meat and maggots fed hemp and pellets little but often. Will return for another session soon.

1 Barbel, 30 Chub

5 Barbel, 4 Chub

Fished at the end of the beat in fast shallow water. There was a lot of weed/algae in the water which interfered with the bait when using a feeder. One of us changed to trotting a stick float on meat and caught over 30 chub of various weights up to around 3lb. Barbel were caught on marine halibut pellet and various broillies with the best over 9lb. Great days fishing even with the river still very low. Great Beat

12 Barbel, 30 Chub

Lovely stretch of water fishing was hard due to low levels of water and not helped by our inability to move as it seems this is not just a fishery but a public beach with scores of people and there dogs swimming nearly into my swim making a lot of noise it was like heaven on Earth in the morning then descended into fishing hell from about 10am till at least 4.30pm a bit of a joke as we Piaf the high ticket price for peace and quiet not to go to Jerry carneys circus we were informed by the owner in morning that we should tell all these people to **** off her words if I had done this would have done so all day and would have been more stressful than putting up with all the racket all said and done will never return here in summer months hopefully people will read this and save themselves the same hassle we had bit of a joke

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

Lovely fishery and water was rising, saw a couple of salmon ! I'm disabled and didn't fish due to the in-accessablity of the swims but my "rookie" partner did. the chub were all small under1/2 lb. the other was an eel.
We fished Dean and Chapter yesterday and the beat would benefit people like with the provision of some simple boarded steps.
I appreciate the Foundation don't want to give any advice on accessiblity for fear of recourse! but they could do more and I'm sure funds are available (lottery/ DDA monies etc)

Fishing Passport Note : The Wye is a SAC and SSSI, meaning the river and its banks are highly protected under law. There are, therefore, strict limits on what can be done to improve access.

15 Chub, 1 Other

1 Trout, 2 Barbel

Desperately hard day. Low water, bright sunshine, zero fish showing. Tried 4-5 swims all the same. Saved from first ever Wye blank by a plucky chub towards the end. It looked more surprised than I did.

1 Chub

Only one rod fished due to last minute drop outs, but I didn’t mind. Got there mid afternoon and headed straight for the beach at the far end. Had 3 barbel in first 3 casts fishing a feeder tight to the trees where the flow starts to pick up and move under them. I then rested it and had a walk to decide a new swim as it had died, but on return had another fish first Chuck and by casting further down and tighter managed another two before dusk. Very strange no chub problems until dusk when they suddenly switched on or came out from under the trees. I did lose 3 more barbel throughout day pulling hard to stop them getting under trees, but just hook pulls.

It’s not cheap but the access and size and numbers of barbel are good. My first fish was around 6lb and the rest were between 8/10lb. I only weighed one fish when I realised my scales took the same batteries as my head torch at 8lb 2oz and it was def not the biggest of the day by any means.

6 Barbel, 4 Chub