Feedback & Reports

A quieter day for Fownhope.
A new 'tackle losing' snag at the lucky stone. Felt like rock rather than weed. Best barbel just under 8lb to meat.
The other were two eels, the one at 3lbs

4 Barbel, 15 Chub, 2 Other

Lovely days fishing two barbel early on then targeted chub none realty big but up to 2lbs then the rest of barbel in the evening

6 Barbel, 15 Chub, 1 Other

Another nice place to spend a day on the river . thanks WUF

4 Barbel, 8 Chub

Great to be back at the Creel. Always a pleasure to fish this stretch of the Wye. Still one of my favourite venues summer or winter because of the good head of big willing Chub and many swim choices too. Caught plenty of them on the float using bread or meat up to 4.5lb, they seem to go nuts on the loosefed hemp, fighting like crazy to get to the snags, fun on lighter tackle. River was a nice level and colour, thousands of fry down the sides. Whilst the river level is as it is, I cant resist trotting. Funny to see the mandarin ducks chase the float down the river too, comical. Also managed two nice barbel at the end of the day. Perfect day out the office. Thanks again WUF for access to this beat.

2 Barbel, 27 Chub

6 Barbel, 4 Chub

The river was at a perfect level at this stretch after a couple of nights of rainfall previously to my first visit to thomas wood, the river was lovely and coloured when i arrived at 6:30 that morning with a lovely flow. At first it was quite a slow start only catching 5 chub before dinner time. But then in the afternoon it just came alive having another 5 chub amongst 7 barbel. What a great day. I used a small feeder with several different sized pellets in my bait mix. Just ashame u can only use one rod on this stretch as it is probably not always as productive on certain days. Definetly worth a visit though.
Fishing Passport note: the one rod per angler rule applies to nearly all day ticket fisheries let through the Passport.

7 Barbel, 10 Chub

River almost back to normal, fished meat and pellets both on the feeder and Stick float. A bite every chuck at the end but only one brief encounter with a (Guessing) good sized Barbel that decided he didn't want to see me. Caught 12 Chub from 1 1/2 lb to 4 1/2 lb. Great days fishing, I will be back !

12 Chub

How lucky were we to get the river in perfect condition just a bit up after last weeks rain and still holding a bit of colour
Caught chub from the very beginning on banded pellet on the waggler, in 40 years fishing I have not had chub of the size and quality as I have had today.
Most of the chub caught were over 3lb and many of them were over 4lb and some were certainly over 5lb they were clearly young fish and were not the battered old warriors you can see, they were all immaculate fin and scale perfect. and a bright golden colour.
Could not catch a barbel on the float but one of my colleagues did catch 3 on feeder fished pellet
What a great day and it is a total pleasure to fish the Wye

3 Barbel, 35 Chub

River was looking really good with normal levels but a good colour. Barbel and Chub all caught on boilies using groundbait and pellet feeder. Thanks to Andy the gamekeeper for putting me in the right area. Look forward to coming back.

6 Barbel, 5 Chub

Fish caught throughout stretch on both feeder and float, mostly with 8mm pellet. Around 30 good stamp chub, between 3lb and 4.10, mostly around 4lb mark. Additional 30 or so chublets 8oz to 1.8. Barbel between 5 and 6lb. River steady level, some colour with around 18” visibility.

5 Barbel, 65 Chub