Feedback & Reports

The river condition was low and clear so decided to fish the wood section. My theory was to roam around. Well 4 feeders lost in the first hour had me thinking again. So I headed for the meadow where I opened my account with a 6lb plus barbel and an eel. I then ventured down into the woods where in the space of 90 minutes had 4 chub with two being over 4lbs and 4 barbel to 6lbs 10oz. Lost many more feeders and hooklengths. The swim went quite for an hour then another small barbel came along. With just 2 feeders left I moved back up into the meadow and caught another small barbel and lost the last two feeders by 7.30pm. We had a storm during the afternoon where most of the rain fell upstream and the river started to rise a little. Note to self wait until the tide goes out on the Wye and go and retrieve my feeders. So 7 barbel and 5 chub is not too bad considering.

18.00 to 21.30 middle swim of Leggs Meadow. Took 13yr old Grandaughter M to try catch her first Barbel, with shouts of "its pulling me in" she did at a weighed 8lb 4oz then caught 2 more of similar size. 20mm halibut pellet with swim feeder in near third of river. I caught 1 also but it was smaller!
Both Courtfield and Wye Bank fishing well now but early morning and evening/dusk providing most fish to hand.
Tues morning river rising and coloured, should fish well.

Arrived at 7am full of anticipation as always wanted to fish this beat. Fished Legge Meadow roughly half way down. Baited my fancied swim & went for a wander, river looked superb & it really is a great stretch to be on.
Started fishing at 9-00 & hooked my first barbel at 9.20,a superb specimen at 8lb 3oz which fought like hell. 15 mins later landed a lovely chub which weighed 3lb 10oz.
Caught on & off until 2.45 when the river switched off. I ended up with 4 barbel (8lb 3oz,8lb, 6lb, 10oz, 5lb 6oz)plus 3 chub.
Stayed on till 7 pm without a bite after 3 pm
On the plus side,great service again from Wuf,superb beat,unbeatable scenery.
Now i,m sorry to say the down side,the bloody canoes.
As a fisherman i respect the rights of everyone to enjoy the glorious Wye but the canoe traffic was really heavy with waves & waves of muppets coming down the river,shouting,splashing with no regard for others.
At one point 6 canoeists (Polish or Lithuanian )paddled right up to me to ask for a light as they had lost their lighter,off they went discarding 3 beer cans into the river...unbelievable !!.

15 Barbel 9 Chub on pellet and boilie.

All three of us fished the field section and had a total of 11 barbel and 7 chub. All caught on pellets.

A fantastic day for our first visit to this absolutely unbelievable river. Carrying a little colour and up a foot from Monday, we took over 30 barbel to double figures. Mainly thanks to Don's advice on location, we targeted great pegs. A range of tactics worked. Pellet in various forms produced steady bites all day. The fish love to be fed. We will return again to this wonderful beat. WUF rule!

Several barbel and chub. Pellet and boilie used.

Enjoyable day back on the Wye. Weather a little unkind but managed 3 barbel & 1 chub and a suprise pike all on pellet.

Quite a lengthy report but I hope useful. Our day consisted of the good, the unbelievably bad and the very good. First of all, the beat is beautiful, the service from WUF excellent and the owner, Don, is friendly and helpful. We arrived early at 6.00am and enjoyed a few peaceful hours in this lovely setting, joined at about 7.00am by another angler, also a very nice guy, and his young son.
Then at 10.00am the first batch of canoes came down. From then on we never had a moment of peace and quiet. Some canoeists are decent people who understand the river etiquette but sadly a high proportion are loud-mouthed, ill-mannered yobs. They seem to have no appreciation of their surroundings and their idea of enjoyment is to drink lager and yell and swear at each other and anyone on the bank. They are quite intolerable, although I daresay they represent lots of money to the canoe operators who clearly don't care how they behave on the water. We left to get some lunch and when we returned there were 3 women in my swim holding some sort of prize presentation with a group of drunk canoeists. You cannot reason with these people so we left the fishery.
We decided to stay away until evening and returned at about 6.00pm. No canoes, peace and quiet and the barbel feeding well. Using groundbait/pellet feeder with halibut boilies we caught a fine stamp of fish between 7lbs and 9lbs as well as a few chub, so a good ending to the day. Such a pity that the natural beauty and tranquility has to be wrecked by people who don't appreciate it.

A hard day but did manage to hook 1 fish which shot off on a long run across the river & pulled the hook, no further action. On another note I was there with 3 other anglers who I knew so who is W B from Surrey & the man with his son who have submitted a report for the 29th? Was I fishing the right beat?