Feedback & Reports

Second day fishing the Foy Bridge beat, tried the beach area again, had 1 Chub, a few bites but again, a lot of weed, moved back up towards the bridge trying a few swims but no bites, decided to fish opposite bank for the last few hours and started to catch a few fish, biggest Chub was 6lb on the dot, stunning fish. Caught 5 Barbel and lost around 4 more due to snags, also caught several Chub in between the Barbel. Cracking fishing!
Met the Bailiff and his dogs on the evening doing his rounds along the bank, he kindly took a pic for me of a Barbel with Foy Bridge in the backdrop. Fished the cage feeder and pellet. Will be back for sure!

5 Barbel, 9 Chub

River still low but in lovely condition
Fish caught on feeder,pellet and meat in a nice steady low as most of beat to shallow
I must say been to a few Wye and usk beats over the last year or so and never before have the beats been in such state.On this beat alone,there was two of us and over the entire beat,which is quite long there was really only 3/4 pegs to fish
There was trees fallen into pegs not cleared ,over grown brambles everywhere
The bottom part of the river you couldn’t even get to,it was all fenced off and you couldn’t even get to it so it wasn’t for the lack of trying
This beat not a shadow of what it was like in years gone by
I love wild fishing but some of the beats now are beyond a joke

2 Barbel, 10 Chub

1 Barbel

Fished the morning until lunchtime. 9 chub to a respectable weight. 1 barbel for my mate.

1 Barbel, 9 Chub

Very weedy and very busy with river traffic being Sunday. The only place to get some consistent fishing was the far channel on the island swim. Two small chublets on the float. Will be back though

2 Chub

The river, as we all know is incredibly low but after walking this stretch we found some nice, fast moving swims around three feet deep which looked very fishy. Unfortunately the weed is really bad and every cast returned with green weed all over the bait. Once the sun got a bit higher I walked the full stretch with my Polaroids on and never saw one fish even though I could see the bottom pretty much all the way across. Gave it until around 10.30am and gave up. Pretty place but no fish Unfortunately.

Three of us fished for the day. When we found the fish, they were obliging. Lovely to see the small barbel coming through. Biggest chub was around 3lb.

4 Barbel, 52 Chub

Fished in the morning only and roamed the whole stretch trying to find the fish. Challenging conditions but a lovely beat.

2 Chub

Very very low and clear it desperately needs a lot of rain.

5 Chub

Fishing was slow at first but got better later … Managed 1 barbel and 7 chub also a very unwelcome large Eel…..

1 Barbel, 7 Chub