Feedback & Reports

The river was very low and clear and the weather sunny and bright.
I booked Tim Lennon for the day as my guide. He showed me his methods, which I hadn't used before and within half an hour I had my first barbel. We used pva bags with 6&8mm pellets in the bag and 8mm pellet on the hook. We ended up with 10 barbel and 1 chub.
Had a really great day and would like to thank Tim whom I learnt a lot from and the wye and usk foundation.
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10 Barbel, 1 Chub

Abstraction pumps were a nuisance for most of the day. Otherwise a lovely days fishing. Will visit more WUF waters in the future. Thank you.

5 Barbel, 1 Chub

1 eel. Despite river being quite low we managed a few nice barbel up to 8.5 lbs.
Found the cows were a bit of a problem when parking in the field as alternative car park not marked very well on map and we could not find it - hence one very dirty white van needing a wash the next day.

10 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

River very low. Caught the fish in the fast flow on heavy feeder, groundbait/small pellets, with pellet on hair rig. Lots of effort but worth the hard work.

7 Barbel, 2 Chub

No bites and nothing caught all day. Fished beach, croy and fast water in front of island. Bait hinders elips pellet, luncheon meat and corn. Hooks size 14, 8lb hook link to 12lb main line, swim feeder. Second rig size 9 hook, power pro hook link, 12lb main line. Weather fairly breezy and pouring rain nearly all day. River low and clear. Lovely spot will return.

River low & clear. three of us fished various baits pellets, luncheon meat, etc. Graham tried different swims. Not a single fish between us!

Very poor day's fishing, not a bite between 3 rods all day. No sign of any fish on the length at all.

Low water level. 7lb and 5lb on corn over hemp.

2 Barbel

Fished top end of beat in morning. Had an eel. Walked back to hut end only to find pump running so back to middle of beat for two four pounds plus chub.

2 Chub, 1 Other

River low and very clear. This is a difficult beat having fished it twice now. I caught two smallish Chub on trotted bread crust, and a third small one on meat. A lot of weed coming down which made fishing a feeder difficult at times. The beat no doubt holds some good fish, but it may be easier in the Autumn I believe. An easy stretch to reach from my home near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, 1 hour 30 mins door to door.

3 Chub