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First time on this beat. I can't say I was impressed as the access to swims was very poor. If the ground was wet it would have been necessary to drop in on sky hooks! There were two which you could access but the levels were quite low and there was a great deal of weed which ended up with tackle losses and only a few fish. 1 Barbel, 1 Chub and strangely 1 eel on a huge lump of luncheon meat.

This was our 1st visit to this stunningly beautiful beat and we arrived early in perfect conditions,overcast and humid. We walked the beatand decided we would fish the lower end in the morning then after lunch fish the upper/mid sections. During the morning we caught 8 barbel but the evening session proved to be most productive and we both caught steadily up to 21:00 with barbel in excess of 8lbs. All the fish came to pellet feeder with pellets,sweetcorn and boilies as hookbaits.
Thanks WUF for a great day in beautiful suroundings, we will return.

We had a very good day fishing at How Caple Court and between the 2 of us we managed to catch 21 Barbel upto 8lbs 4oz and 17 Chub but only upto 3lbs 8oz. Most of the fish were caught by trotting lunchon meat, we also ledgered using halibut pellets. All the fish seemed in very good health but we noticed that 3 of the Barbel had the lower tails missing. Between 06.45am - 09.00am 5 Cormorants were seen flying up stream.

A lovely day on the river. First time on a new stretch which is a brilliant stretch of river. Both rods caught barbel and chub and we will deinately be back for another session. Thanks WUF!

Very nice stretch of river with plenty of well established swims, although some of them are tricky to access. Unfortunately the fishing was quite slow for most of the day, but did pick up in the last hour or so of light. In the end, I managed 6 Barbel with the biggest at 7lb 10oz and a small Chub of around a pound after trying several different swims.
I did come across one man who was fishing without a ticket, but he did apologise and leave when he realised it was a private stretch (I also pointed him towards the WUF website). Maybe putting some signs up at the entrances would help prevent this in the future?
Thanks again WUF for a great day out :)

Arrived 11.30am and fished till 7.00pm. Between the two rods caught 3 Barbel between 5 and 8lbs and a couple of Chub around 2 pounds. Most fish taken on halibut pellets, lost a couple of fish at the net. Will be back soon.

Arrived early morning. Sun shining. As this was my first visit I checked out length of beat and chose to fish accessible swim about midway in "near bank gulley". Quiet but improved midday. Caught 4 nice chubb and 1 barbel.
Wonderful location in beautiful countryside. Parking in wet conditions would be restricted. Another very enjoyable day. Thank you W.U.F.

First time at How Caple Court, 4 anglers in two cars, did look at parking both cars at the downstram end but decided to use the middle access track which was fine as the ground was dry and hard, not sure what it would have been like wet? In total we managed 22 barbel and 14 chub between us. One angler netting 9 barbel and 3 chub with the next best catch being 6 barbel to over 9lbs on ledgered pellet as well as 10 chub taken on float fished sweetcorn on what was another very hot day. Not too may swims to go at as we do enjoy roving around but all in all another fantastic day on the Wye.

On initial arrival I was rather dissapointed with the accesability of the swims and to be honest, if it were at all muddy or the river were up I would not have risked the clamber down to them. Far too dangerous but luckily it was a sunny, dry day and of the 5 swims available my brother fished one that was at the river level and I chose one which needed the full length of my telescopic landing net handle to reach the water. Had a great day 4 Barbel, largest of which was pushing double figures and at least 8 chub, the largest was a stonker pushing the 5lb mark, the rest were around 3lbs with a couple of 1.5lbs. My brother had 2 Barbel around the 4lbs mark and numerous chub between half a pound to one and a half pounds. Be warned, swims not for the feint hearted.

31 Barbel 8 Chub on pellets meat and bread. Caught fish from all over the beat. Most fish caught after 4pm.