Feedback & Reports

A difficult first day of six on the river, algae bloom has made the river look like malt vinegar. First time on this beat, plenty of canoes but no hassle even when the armada arrived. All fish caught on pellet.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

Stunning days fishing although conditions were far from ideal,very bright sunshine and river level low.7 chub 3lb 8oz,4lb2oz,4lb6oz,5lb8oz,5lb10oz,5lb11oz and 6lb5oz,and to cap off a memorable day a pb Barbel for the Wye of 11lb 10oz.Fishmeal groundbait in a feeder and luncheon meat were the method.

1 Barbel, 7 Chub

very slow day, I didn't see a barbel or chub roll all day. I moved 4 times, but only caught a few eels! had to leave at 7pm to head home, so missed the usual evening activity if there was any :/

4 Other

4 barbel caught throughout the day with a nice small fish of around 2 1/2 to 3lb mark. Again the water colour was odd for the Wye, watery gravy. Which seemed to affect the chub numbers, well of larger chub. 20 small chublettes on corn caught, few inches in size.

4 Barbel, 20 Other

A very hard day on a stretch we normally do well on. Water was a strange brown colour and something was not quite right. Since read other similar reports.

1 Chub, 2 Other

There were anglers fishing on the opposite bank in the area of the fishing hut. We decided therefore to head further downstream and take a look at the pegs in the woods.
These carried a little more pace than those upstream and we decided to settle there.
We fished from early afternoon until around 8pm and had bites steadily throughout this time. There are lots of Chub present and we each had around 25 of these in the 3lb to 5lb bracket. We also caught 8 good sized Barbel which were from around 6lb to 8lb+. All caught on pellet and feeder tactics.
A thoroughly enjoyable session.

8 Barbel, 50 Chub

Water running low with not much colour - sunny conditions. Catches from Middle Field Section, Access not really possible top end of stretch. Feeder and pellet worked best.

2 Barbel, 8 Chub

A mix of sun and cloud in the morning and full sun for most of the afternoon. Given the results of the previous day we had expectations of something similar on the barbel front but this didn't materialise with no barbel from the swim that had produced on the previous day. The 'other' was an eel.

3 Barbel, 13 Chub, 1 Other

Peaceful situation despite the generator running noisily next to the parking area. Not a problem though as we fished well away from it . River low and affected by brown algae bloom and quite hot and sunny which made fishing very hard. This has always been a good beat for me but I now see that the far bank attracting more anglers than normal. This could be because the landowner allows them to drive the whole stretch and park very close to their swims nearly all of which have been well prepared with steps and flat surfaces to park their seats on! I lost count of the number of such swims available . Unfortunately , this can seriously affect the choice of a swim for any considerate Whitehouse angler . The swim we both fished was superb and oozed barbel but opposite was a well used swim . We got in first but were rather anxious when we saw to our horror someone get out of their car and look at the swim ! Fortunately, he was considerate and moved on.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Good day at Wyebank. Largest barbel at 10lb. 3 eels in the mix too. Water still very dark, canoeists fairly well behaved today.

6 Barbel, 2 Chub, 3 Other