Feedback & Reports

Arrived late morning for first of two days fishing. River was dropping and running quick, not much streamer weed. Fished an hour or so straight away as couldn't resist and caught several barbel and chub. Then left the stretch for the afternoon to the canoeists. Fished again in the evening and what a great session. Lovely summer weather, maybe a bit too bright but plenty of fish. The rod didn't rest for long. Already planning a return.

11 Barbel, 5 Chub

Well not a bad start to the new season. Fished the bottom pool as advised by Don and caught steadily from first cast.I used both feeder and float and caught well on both methods. This was the first time I have fished this short and shallow stretch of the Wye but it wont be the last. Many thanks to Don and the WUF.

15 Barbel, 13 Chub, 1 Other

Crazy days fishing.
Lost 18 feeders on snags but found fish in fast water.
Met Don. What a lovely man and very helpful.
Bottom peg produced most. Had two chub on chips whist having takeaway fish and chips!

16 Barbel, 10 Chub

A very nice days fishing - salmon showing on beats 4 and 6 but no interest in our flies. One good trout in the morning.

1 Trout

7pm to dusk. Spinning a Mepps, no salmon but 1 WBT of around 2lb from immediately below access to beat followed next cast by a similar sized Chub that showed no signs of spawning. Lovely evening on the Wye with considerable Mayfly hatch and much surface activity.

1 Trout, 1 Chub

Evening time, Wyebank run, midway down (above Wyebank Crib), fantastic 37" plus hen salmon on size 10 double Tosh fished just below surface, taken by rising fish just as line straightened out. Good controlled fight within 25 yards either way of take, worked it to edge after what seemed a long time but was actually, having checked my phone previously couldn't have been much over 10 minutes plus. Managed to tail it in 2ft of water, turning her upside down and dropping my rod butt to get a visual mark above my 3ft scratch showing at least an inch over, pushed out hook with my forked piece of withy and off she went. A very controlled and flukey series of moves. Not dazzling, clean and fresh but very lovely. My biggest fish on fly, and the biggest from Wyebank since 2005 when Prof Basil Jarvis had a good twenty and lost a possible 30 twenty minutes later. A couple of hundred yards of fly water which has produced 5 so far this year all on fly and 3 or more lost. It took me best part of two hours to fish from the steps to the crib, not even half of it. No canoes, no noise, no people. Oh yes, 3 lovely twaite shad and another 2 lost in the process of trying to catch a salmon!

1 Salmon

We were 3 people fishing Wyebank/Courtfield on May 8th. We were well greeted and the various pools etc were explained to us by Don. We had one small pike around 4lbs and a small sea trout. No sign of any salmon all day. Saying that we had a great day out.

1 Sea Trout, 1 Pike

Fly fishing only. River conditions were slightly coloured.

2 Trout

Blank for salmon, but a delightful few hours fishing down this lovely bit of fly water. Owner Don Macer-Wright (who got one yesterday) was helpful as always. I have an ambition to get a fish out of the Wyebank runs and this time everything looked just about right on a nice "soft" day of cloud. Instead there were some hefty trout hitting the tube in the fast flow to increase the pulse rate for a moment. I sometimes think we should pay some more attention to trout in this part of the Wye and any salmon angler will tell you that there are some really nice ones, right down to the tide. A few grannom and yellow may hatching now. Everything seems to be early this year.

1pm to 4.15pm. Centrepin on old Garrick kevlar trotting rod rod, all very light gear, size 18 hook to 2lb hook length of 2ft with no shot on hook-length due to water being crystal clear. 1 good dace and 1 chub around 2lb in the shallows below entry, from bottom pool. 2 chub in 3 to 4lb size and 1 OOS trout of around 12oz. Good sport on this kind of tackle. All caught on single maggot, no bites on double maggot. In summer you can catch these chub on a tow rope but they seem very cautious in these cold clear conditions. Excellent level for float fishing.

1 Trout, 3 Chub, 1 Other