Feedback & Reports

JT and I arrived about 0930, refreshed from fishing another beat the day before. The beat is very popular on the opposite bank. It was like sitting in a telephone box listening to everyones conversation - hilarious.

After roaming around we settled on 2 swims and after a hard days fishing I managed 3 Barbel and a Chub, JT Had 2 Barbel and lost a monster!

Thanks for a great couple of days fishing Wye & Usk Foundation.

Turned up at Whitehouse around 6am, the weather wasn't too good, scattered heavy showers, light showers and a bit windy. After planning to make the most of the full length of the fishery we were a bit disappointed as the river was up a good few feet and pushing through, lots of debris floating by. The conditions made us choose the lower stretch hoping the extra water over any gravel bars would be a good starting point but mainly because we could land and return any fish safely.
We both set up feeder rods, I was on halibut pellet, hemp & caster, my dad was fishing sweetcorn, hemp and caster. After a good few dace and small chublets, around 8.30 I had our first barbel at 7lb 5oz so things looked promising. At around 11am I had another barbel at 7lb 4oz. A couple of hours saw my dad have a few more dace and chub, then after a good look around we decided to up sticks and move to the top end of the fishery. Sticking to the same baits my dad had quite a few more dace and small chub then another barbel at 9lb 11oz. Between 2pm and 8pm my dad continued to catch smaller stuff and we had another 3 barbel between 6lb and 7lb 9oz. Considering the conditions were so so, we had a great time and even when most of the river wasn't visible it was a cracking days fishing and another visit is on the cards.

Many thanks for allowing us to fish this stretch. We had 3 barbel and 8 eels. River up and spots difficult to spot/hold.

x2 barbel to 7.5lbs caught.

Fished both Saturday & Sunday, Saturday we were greeted with 8 foot of raging flood water and Sunday it was up another 2 feet!!!! We had never seen the venue before so fish location became difficult - we managed to winkle out 6 barbel to 8lb on Saturday and 2 on the Sunday to 4lb.

I prefer this beat with the water at least a couple of foot up from current levels, when the top swims usually fish very well. In any event with anglers occupying swims on the opposite bank at the top end, we had to settle for the lower end of the fishery, where although there are barbel in most swims, they do not appear in great numbers. This proved to be the case today, and we ended up with only one barbel between us at 7lb 5oz.

All four rods caught total of six barbel and 8 chub. On site bailiff was very helpful.

Neither of us had a bite all day. Very disappointing.

Four of us fished this stretch on the Friday. The lower stretch produced three or four Chub to maggot also caught two nice Grayling. Five Barbel caught up to around 5lb all on maggot. The upper stretch produced 9 barbel the biggest was 8lb. These were caught on meat, maggot and pellet.

A bit of a struggle for myself today, couldn't settle in the right swim, managed 1 barbel and 3 chub. Honours undoubtably go to Mr J Dixon of Farnham who managed 13 barbel to 8lbs, top fishing, sweetcorn the going bait.