Feedback & Reports

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Didn't start fishing till 5pm was a very busy and enjoyable evening landing 10 barbel best one going 10:10 and lost two. Whoever fished the swim in the middle of the woods the day or so before, don't worry I took your carrier bag of rubbish home, disgusting leaving that much litter about!
(Thank you, WUF)

10 Barbel, 1 Chub

After a few hours on Legg Meadow for just an eel and a chub I moved into the woods and was hopeful when the first cast produced a barbel but it was a bit slow and bites were few and far between with just 3 more barbel and a chub over the following 6 hours.
Disappointingly there was quite a bit of rubbish in the swims along Legg Meadow including beer cans, newspaper and fishing related packaging. Is it too much to expect anglers to respect the environment and tidy up after themselves?

4 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

Fished mid afternoon to dusk, had barbel to 8 lb and chub to 5lb. Pleasent fishing canoe traffic much lighter at this time of day.

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

Fished all day until 20.30, pellet and groundbait feeder. Biggest barbel going 9lb 15oz

12 Barbel, 5 Chub

5 barbel caught late afternoon/early evening best 9:14

5 Barbel

We fished at the meadow for 8 hours using pellet with cage feeders, tried just about every hook bait and didn't get one single bite between us all day!
Other anglers in the woods had a couple early on and that was it. Very disappointing day! Also the whole stretch of river is large to huge rocks on the bottom so kept getting snagged up and was losing gear all day!

Difficult conditions being very low and clear. Fish fed early morning and late evening (after 7pm)
Largest barbel 9lbs 2oz and chub 4lbs 7oz. Great place to fish.

7 Barbel, 3 Chub

I wanted to introduce my friend Adam to barbel fishing. What better river than the Wye to do this? I have fished Courtfield a number of times so knowing this stretch well decided to take him there. We weren't disappointed as this stretch once again proved how good it is. We fished the same swim in the woods as I wanted to be close at hand. Adam fished downstream of me as this is usually the best area when two people fish close together. He ended the day with 11 barbel to 8 lbs 4 ozs and one chub about 4 lbs. I spent most of the day catching chub to 4 lbs 12 ozs and had to wait until late afternoon for my first barbel but then things went very well for me, landing a total of eight barbel. The best two were 9 lbs 12 ozs and 10 lbs 6 ozs, my biggest Wye barbel. The day was overcast so we had action sporadically throughout the day but as usual the evening proved to be the best time. The biggest fish coming at last knockings. The canoes came through in numbers but all were courteous and we had no problems.

19 Barbel, 9 Chub

Fished pm in woods and had one each. Then in the evening at top of meadow, 2 each. One at a PB busting 11lbs. Weekday canoes are different again to those at weekends, or rather the people in them are. A family in 2 canoes stopped to watch us land a barbel, and gave us a round of applause when we got it in the net - so we can all enjoy the river!

6 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other