Feedback & Reports

The river was very low, but had a tinge of colour. There was not much weed growth compared with previous years.
I was catching barbel on float-fished pellet until a succession of canoists, dogs, wild swimmers and family swimmers invaded my swim and my fishing was finished for the day by 11am. Paying as much as we do for fishing, this is very disappointing. I realise it is one of the perils of fishing the Wye in summer, but that doesn't make it any less irritating.

4 Barbel, 5 Chub

Started in the faster water below the bridge, which produced 2 average size barbel and a chub. Due to canoes and selfish idiots swimming right through the deeper glides (and right through the swims we were fishing!), it was necessary to move at midday and find some deeper, quieter swims. This produced a corking 8lb 4oz barbel in the early evening. All fish in perfect condition, and fighting well.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Slow going on a very warm day,afternoon spoiled with groups of people getting out of canoes and swimming in the river !

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

River very low and clear, baking hot sunny day, couldn’t stay until dusk due to family commitments. Tough day no fish, saw a couple of nice barbel in the shallows. Ps the extraction pump ran most of the day.

Sat 24 June a.m. was disappointing as we had bites but not many real takes and caught just 1 Chub. We had been using feeders & PVA bag with pellet on the hook. We reviewed our method for the afternoon session and decided to just fish a pellet on the hook with no feeder or PVA and started to catch immediately at regular intervals, 6 Barbel to 6 lb 7 oz and 5 Chub to +4 lb. A good looking easy to fish beat and we look forward to going back.

6 Barbel, 5 Chub

1 Barbel, 10 Chub

Following on from yesterday's trip to Wyebank, my son (10) and I shared a rod on the next day on Courtfield. A 4.30am alarm call saw us settled in my favourite swim in the woods on Courtfield, (where I'd enjoyed a good day the previous Monday 19 June). However, action was somewhat slower than I'd expected - the odd chubby rattle on the tip now and then, but nothing developing. An hour or so in, we had a very modest chub - about a pound - followed by another a half hour or so later. Then it happened, the tip rattled, rattled again and then heaved right over and junior was in to a decent fish that swam low and slow. Taking his dad's instructions well, he brought the fish slowly towards the waiting net, only to have it rush off again in to the current. Second time of asking, we netted it and having given the fish a really good rest, we weighed it at 8lb 4oz. Another long rest before the fish swam off strongly, junior beaming from ear to ear.
Next cast and dad's turn with the rod, this time the culprit being a 5lb chub - lovely! The start of the feeding spell? No, turned out to be the last action for some time, so weighing up the long drive back to Oxford and a river rapidly filling up with canoes, we decided to head home.
All fish came to paste wrapped halibut pellets, either 14mm (singles) or 8mm (multiples, 2 or 3).
Thanks once again to WUF and Don Macer-Wright. What a brilliant couple of days.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

10 Barbel, 2 Chub

Beautiful part of the river. Feeder and float used. I caught 40 chub and two barbel the first day, 35 chub and 5 barbel the next. My friend caught the rest. The hill is a killer.

14 Barbel, 103 Chub