Feedback & Reports

The main objective of this trip was to get my 10 year old son his first barbel. Arriving around 6pm, Wyebank certainly didn't disappoint in that respect, the famous bottom pool providing a strong bite on the first cast (missed), then another on the second that turned out to be a 4lb barbel, job done! What followed was incredible action, in the space of approx. 3 hours we had 14 barbel, half of those were "mini" barbel, probably just under a pound but the others were all regular shoal size between 4 and 6 pounds. No monsters here, but quality was very much surpassed by quantity - which suits a ten year old attention span much better. I think it's probably the case that in our entire session, we only had two casts where we didn't get a proper bite. Which isn't to say all those bites turned in to fish, but even so - remarkable fishing in anyone's book! We packed up at about 9.30 as I didn't fancy negotiating the path back from the swim in darkness. Early tomorrow we would be heading to Courtfield, where I had suggested to junior that what they lacked in numbers, they made up for in size... time would tell.

My sincerest thanks to WUF, to Don (the beat owner) and also to my friend Rob who'd given me the low down on the Wyebank bottom pool when he was fishing it the previous Monday whilst I was on Courtfield, check RM's catch report for the 19 June on Wyebank and Courtfield

14 Barbel

River very low, fish caught all day long to various baits and methods .

20 Barbel, 10 Chub

Our first visit to this beat. The fish were cought on pellet feeder with Mainline 10 mm boilies on the hook and rolling meat. Barbel to 7lb and chub to 4lb with 1 eel. Had some helpful advice from Don the owner and we all had a enjoyable days fishing. Will book this spot again.

23 Barbel, 27 Chub, 1 Other

Our second day on Wyebank with the fishing similar to Friday. Many thanks WUF be back soon.

19 Barbel, 18 Chub

6 Barbel

River slightly up on normal summer levels. Fish caught on feeder and float tactics with float being the most successful. Canoe traffic not too bad and all respectful. Thanks WUF .

14 Barbel, 20 Chub

A disappointing day. River was well up and pushing through to the extent that we packed up before 11.00
We did chat to the owner of the beat who explained that high levels in the reservoirs upstream meant that water was being released into the Wye, raising the levels. Unfortunately this meant that the beat was just about unfishable
No fish caught.

A few inches of water on and pushing through, started on the Wyebank pool and tried several methods and baits before finally taking a 2.5lb Chub to trotted maggot. An hour later an oos brown trout of 1.5-2lb took feeder fished caster before the swim went dead. A while later I spoke with Don and he suggested trotting a swim just down from the steps where the slow and faster moving waters meet, I did manage a 2lb chub late on but no other bites to feeder or float.

1 Trout, 2 Chub

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

One big chub at 4½lbs.

1 Chub