Feedback & Reports

Our second day and second WUF beat. Arrived at 4:45 AM, and decided to fish the swim with the inspection cover as suggested and the next swim upstream. Balled in some bait then went back to the van to rest the swim and tackle up. Fished with feeders till about 10Am with no joy. With canoes coming down we decided to come back later.
Arrived back to the same swims about 5PM and just used feeders to search the swims, fished until 10PM with only 2 chub an eel and a hand sized barbel, which took 2 elips pellet, greedy bugger!! River was slow and conditions were bright, also a lot of canoes as it was the weekend. Can't win them all.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

Great session on this beat. The largest barbel was 8lbs 14oz. Caught a perch on a pellet which is a first. The largest chub was 4lbs 14oz. River still very low and the ranunculas coming down causing problems on holding the bottom.

12 Barbel, 3 Chub, 1 Other

We were a party of 2, both using standard barbel timebomb pellet method.
Using the far bank swims to avoid snags, the fishing became difficult from late morning due to heavy canoe traffic. Although most were polite and avoided the lines, some still managed to sweep away our tackle. As a consiquence, it was much easier to stop fishing until 4pm to avoid anymore upsets. Once we had resumed fishing, bites started from 5pm and lasted until late evening when we made our weary way home. Thanks for the day :)

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

Evening session using methods recommended in Courtfield literature provided landed two large barbel, a large chub and some smaller ones on one rod. Despite using the same set up the other rod had just one small knock. Good sport. We'll be back soon hopefully.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

One early barbel, then nothing for the rest of the day.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

I enjoyed my day. No catch to report, lots of traffic on the river and they also were enjoying their sport but at times there were up to 10 boats every ten mins or so. I don't worry about the boats and I enjoyed the day. I had one pull round but suffered a hook pull. I'd love to fish this section of the Wye again, there are a lot of Barbel there. No complaints. Many thanks and best regards.

Great days angling. James and Chris caught pb barbel each. The canoes were pretty well constant for the best part of 6 hours. However, this didn't spoil the fishing. The ranuculus weed problem was still evident, however not as bad as before. Funny there are fewer larger chub coming out this year. All caught on feeder and pellet.

11 Barbel, 7 Chub

Good all round conditions. Two barbel caught on pelllet and several chub.

2 Barbel, 4 Chub, 1 Other

River a few inches higher and pushing through slightly quicker than my last visit. Floating weed still a problem but much better than the previous few days judging from other anglers reports. I had a few Chub early morning but had to wait until 09:00 until the first Barbel arrived but at 8lb 5ozs it was worth waiting for. Although I finished with 8 Barbel, there was no sustained feeding spell having to wait an hour or two between bites, my final two coming after 6pm including the best fish of the day at 9lb 2ozs. I knew I was in a productive swim so was not tempted to move around and patience did pay off today. All fish tempted on Elips pellets, best Chub 4lb 14ozs but most other Chub around the 3lb mark.

8 Barbel, 12 Chub

Fished both Weds and Thurs but only mornings until about 10 and afternoon and evenings from about 4.30. River up a little on Weds but dropping back on Thursday. Not ideal conditions but as always its worth persevering on this stretch as the fish are there and can be tempted. Pellet fished on a long hook link behind a feeder did the trick with 7 barbel to 9.05 and 6 chub to 5lb. Nice to meet Rudi who knows the stretch really well and is very open and helpful to visiting anglers. Courtfield is definitely one of my favourite venues and I will be back later in the season.

7 Barbel, 6 Chub