Feedback & Reports

Absolutely superb!

This is barbel and chub fishing at its best. Fished feeder on pellet hookbait. First half hour quiet whilst the fish moved in, then constant savage takes from then on! Stayed at the Falcon House B&B, with an interesting and unusual parliament of owls in residence.

Fished the faster flow in low water conditions for just an afternoon, before the long journey home after an excellent weeks fishing this great river. Canoes were an occasional mild irritation but were generally polite and not too obtrusive.

11 Barbel, 12 Chub

Another great day at Wyebank the river was running low and clear. The fish responded better to float fishing, my friend fished the feeder all day with only 3 Barbel for his efforts I took the rest all on the float. Thanks WUF.

19 Barbel, 20 Chub

All fish fell to one angler .

5 Barbel, 3 Chub

River low but some colour, chub everywhere caught to start with on pellet but switched to waggler fishing 2- 3 feet deep. Chub up to 4Lb. Great fun

1 Barbel, 25 Chub

Very different conditions from when I fished this venue almost exactly a year ago. Today the river was a little lower and very, very much weedier. Started off today in the Church stream, where last year caught a number of barbel. Did get one bite but the fish dived straight into weeds and dislodged the hook. After a couple of fruitless hours moved to the steps, as this had less weed than most swims. Hooked a chub, but again lost in the weed. The next fish was a reasonable barbel (just shy of 8 lb), which eventually was safely landed after twice getting tangled in the weeds. Another smaller barbel followed, then some chub up to to 3 lb. One of the larger chub was still leaking eggs. By 4 pm the bites stopped completely. Only one angler fished, as the other was persuaded that experiencing perpetual daylight in northern Norway was more exciting than the Wye. He may have been right.

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

Halibut pellets on hair, barbel ground bait. We found that the ground bait attracted the chub and we caught the barbel at times when we didn’t use the ground bait for a while. We accidentally caught a small eel and also saw another one in the margins. Large fish were jumping throughout our two days on this incredible river.

3 Barbel, 23 Chub, 1 Other

Fished the middle pegs on the right hand side of the parking. Not many accessible pegs further down the other side of the beat. Not sure about double bank fishing as only one accessible side? Also no pegs on the opposite bank. Wye and usk need to update the information or provide further details for access. Slow going but enjoyable all barbel were between 6 and 8lb.

5 Barbel, 2 Chub

Always a good venue. Tried a few swims to the left and right of the tree line. Barbel always there in the faster flow.

3 Barbel, 7 Chub

River very low, but caught all day mainly on the feeder. Will be booking for next year.

32 Barbel, 19 Chub