Feedback & Reports

Low and hot, lots of bites,lots of snags

1 Chub

The Day began full of promise, targeting the end of a glide where the extremely low clear river is being forced around the left hand side of the island leaving a now dry bank of rocks that would normally be under water. My chosen method, a 2oz block end feeder filled with hemp and caster on a running line behind a 3ft hook link down to a size 8 wide gape hook, where a piece of SPAM, some 20 to 25mm in size was mounted via a short 'hair'. All fish caught put up a good account of themselves and swam off strongly after being rested in the net before releasing. All my fish came to me in the morning prior to the armada of canoeist and paddle boarders, many of who decided to stop off for picnic, refreshments and a swim in the upstream fast water on the rocky bank before heading on their way. Upon leaving one family capsized in the fast water sending the canoes contents down through my swim! By which time my swim was devoid of fish anyway! so home time for me! If I can offer any advice, It would be to leave the river to the canoeists and paddle boarders at the weekend and plan any fishing trip during the week.

5 Barbel, 1 Chub, 2 Other

8 Chub

1 Barbel, 7 Chub

4 Chub

Day started with the target to avoid a blank, river looking horrendously in need of rain.

After several hours of looking and exploring we found the fish to be rather localised. Ended up being a very good day for chub, caught on both lead and float tactics.

1 recently deceased cock salmon found in the shallows (about 8-10lbs), possibly due to river

1 Barbel, 40 Chub

Having had a bit of a shocker the day before on Holme Lacy, this session was an unbelievable difference. We found where the barbel were living caught them throughout a hot cloudless day on float fished pellet.
One of my best days on the Wye. Will be back for sure.

18 Barbel, 7 Chub

Very low. The beach was being used as a recreation centre, but managed to find a couple of swims at the end of the beat. Lots of barbel flashing gave the best swims away!

5 Barbel, 2 Chub

Hot and bright all day, fishing tough. Tried most fishable pegs during the day. Fish caught towards the end of the day on meat from the end of the faster water at the bottom end of the beat. Other was an eel.

5 Chub, 1 Other

Spent the morning on the bottom with a feeder and pellet. Was completely unfishable due to the green algae that was wrapping around my tackle. After lunch time i decided to roll meat which caught me around 12 chub.

12 Chub