Feedback & Reports

good day on this beat. plenty of swims, most roped-up, and the first meadow looking rally good. A nice bit of colour helped the fish feed. mixture of pellet and meat did the trick.

13 Barbel, 16 Chub

Great day fishing on the Wye - 4 anglers caught 22 barbel from 4 pegs, one peg giving up 12 barbel . Barbel ranged from 6 - 9.5 LB with an average around 7.5lb. Conditions were perfect with overcast skies and chocolate brown waters. River pushing through following heavy rain upstream earlier in the weeks - level dropped 2ft throughout the day.

22 Barbel, 7 Chub

Well what a difference a day makes. Lovely chat between the four angling parties in our hotel fishing a variety of WUF stretches. I didn't think much rain fell yesterday at all but it presumably had up in the hills as one eagle eyed chap checking the levels alerted us to a massive spike upstream at Mordiford coming our way. 0.27 at breakfast turned into 0.44 by the time we got to river. Whole trees started coming down river and it rose to 1.5m by the time we left. So much weed and leaves coming through meant frequent de-weeding and short casts but in between, barbel fed in three of our swims. Bites again were slight, double taps instead of the single ones from leaves or slightly longer lifts than it just being moved by the weed. These may have turned into big pulls but striking 'in case' produced well hooked fish. 6 (top end), 4 and 3 barbel (bottom end) with one chub to the other angler so again not a complete day but for 3 of the 4 a great return in challenging conditions. Biggest barbel 8.06. Thanks to Stefan for convincing PJ to stay where he was as he had 3 barbel in the afternoon.
River now at .91 so the guys fishing today from our hotel should have it sock on!

13 Barbel, 1 Chub

23 Barbel, 9 Chub

17 Barbel, 8 Chub

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

all caught on float fished meat .best fish 5lb

10 Chub

4 Barbel, 8 Chub

Biggest barbel 8lb 4oz
Biggest chub 4lb 5oz

Good average stamp of fish - average barbel between 5-7lb. Most fish caught ledgering but did some trotting late morning/early afternoon and had a run of 12 chub (including 4 small chublet).

11 Barbel, 19 Chub

4 Barbel