Feedback & Reports

We booked for six but only four were able to make the trip. River seemed very low - we don't fish this stretch often enough to know what 'normal' level is - but we were saved by cloudy weather and showers which resulted in the occasional bite throughout the day.

8 Barbel, 3 Chub

Horrendous weather it poured down all day and really windy. Fished several swims finding the odd fish. I am a little fed up of complaining about the end tackle of other anglers. Had a big barbel that had 3 foot of 25lb coated hooklink and a size 4 hook stuck in its throat, now all safely and carefully removed. If you want to fish like that go to a lake and catch some carp....
Very snaggy in places with lots of weed.

6 Barbel, 5 Chub

Raising river, slight tint, 0.75m. pellet and pellet feeder, no fish when sunny

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Two barbel (5lb and 6lb) from the Wood Crib. One other barbel lost. Legered pellet and boilie over carpet of hemp and mini-pellets.

2 Barbel

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

Fished two days on Courtfield. Nice beat overall, over the road just behind you is very noisy. Caught number of fish from different swims through out the day. fishing 3 years on they Wye I was never controlled to check what hooks or bait am I using, which is wrong. Found a few barbed hooks on the banks and in fish'es mouths including some on what must have been a 6lb line!!

10 Barbel

River extremely low and clear with little pace - really struggled with nothing at all happening until last knockings when lost 1 barbel and mate had one and a chub. Desperately needs a good flush through.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

So day 2 arrived, again decided to go to the woods stretch, river hadn't come up overnight so swims accessible

Stuck with pellet and feeder to start, using open end feeder and straight led, tried everything we had in the locker,
No signs other than the bleak descending on the ground bait cloud like piranhas on every cast, rolled meat under trees, down the channel, all to no avail.
To relieve the boredom fished banded 3mm feed pellets on waggled catching bleak and small dace one a chuck!
Regrouped mid afternoon and we're hoping for a glorious last couple of hours, Phil managed a 1/2lb Barbel then a 6lb 2oz Right at the death.

I failed to catch a Barbel for first time on the Wye, very frustrating 2 days.

Had a quick visit from one of the other two anglers booked on day, they had managed one chub from the meadow, had fished other stretches during the week but with very little to show,Last year they had cleaned up with same tactics from same swims, on same stretches but with a bit of colour in the river last year.
All in all took some learnings from 2 days, saw the Wye wild life in all its glory,despite the close proximity of the road,
Will certainly return for another go when the rivers had a flush of water through!

2 Barbel, 2 Chub, 24 Other

Once again it was very slow going and judging by the reports from the other anglers on the beat it was not just me that was struggling. Hopefully this weekends rain will liven things up.

2 Barbel