Feedback & Reports

Came back to the Church Stream Pool for the second day. Caught a few chub to 4 lb from the start at 9 am, then the wind got up bringing a very large branch crashing down into the water. This made stately passage through the swim and killed action for a while. Like the previous day, the barbel took a while to appear, finally arriving at 12.30. Then caught 5 on pretty much consecutive casts (only interrupted by a chub between barbel nos 3 and 4. The biggest was a nice fish of 8 1/2 lb. Moved upstream to the Church field for the final couple of hours, where had a bite a chuck fishing across towards the far bank - every one a chub. Lost a few in the weed, but ended up with a dozen from this spot. All fish took 11 or 12 mm pellets, even an 8 oz tiddler. This beat certainly produces fish, but beware of the steep banks if you are not that agile.

5 Barbel, 20 Chub

Cloudy and windy day on the bank. River was low but carrying some clour so hopes were high. Majority of the fish taken in the mid morning to swimfeeder and pellets, barbel to 9lb and chub to 4lb. Fished from 7am to 8pm and would have fished later but had a 3 hour + return journey. Still one of my favourite beats.

6 Barbel, 6 Chub

River low and brown colour which was odd as no rain for ages.
Conditions not a great after hot weather, bit cooler and overcast with wind. Dosh caught on pellets. Pegs either side of row of trees, other pegs tried but no fish.

6 Chub

Only one rod fishing. 10 Chub and 2 Eels, ledgered luncheon meat. Weather overcast all day, WSW wind, temp 19 degrees. Normal summer level but water very warm and coloured following on from heat wave. Enjoyable day at a lovely quite spot!

10 Chub, 2 Other

Disappointing day river looked good with some colour despite recent hot days. Fished to the right of car parking area. Two barbel 7.5lb and 5.25lb. One chub around 4lb.

2 Barbel, 3 Chub

A wonderful day on the beautiful Wye. Although conditions were very blustery and grey, the fish fed throughout the session with the better barbel coming late in the afternoon. No monsters but I managed my Wye PB barbel of a shade under 9lb. Most of the chub I caught showed predator scars - presumably pike.

5 Barbel, 4 Chub

Another great day on Fownhope 5 , always worth the trek into the woods .
SG fishing in the woods managed 31 chub, 5 barbel , SM fishing one peg upstream had 18 chub.
MH fishing mainly the upper field had 16 chub and 5 barbel.
most of the chub caught were still spawning.

10 Barbel, 65 Chub

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

As expected not an easy day due to the low river and hot bright conditions.
The normal swims did not produce and my favoured peg in the trees up from the large house is no longer fishable due to a fallen tree it will requires a chain saw to clear.
Found fish latter in the day in some fast water toward the top of the beat, above the orchard.
First fish was a good perch getting close to 2lb taken on sweet corn ! Three barbel to 8lb 4oz and 6 chub the best 4.5lb
a good day after a slow start.
Thank you

3 Barbel, 6 Chub, 1 Other

The main objective of this trip was to get my 10 year old son his first barbel. Arriving around 6pm, Wyebank certainly didn't disappoint in that respect, the famous bottom pool providing a strong bite on the first cast (missed), then another on the second that turned out to be a 4lb barbel, job done! What followed was incredible action, in the space of approx. 3 hours we had 14 barbel, half of those were "mini" barbel, probably just under a pound but the others were all regular shoal size between 4 and 6 pounds. No monsters here, but quality was very much surpassed by quantity - which suits a ten year old attention span much better. I think it's probably the case that in our entire session, we only had two casts where we didn't get a proper bite. Which isn't to say all those bites turned in to fish, but even so - remarkable fishing in anyone's book! We packed up at about 9.30 as I didn't fancy negotiating the path back from the swim in darkness. Early tomorrow we would be heading to Courtfield, where I had suggested to junior that what they lacked in numbers, they made up for in size... time would tell.

My sincerest thanks to WUF, to Don (the beat owner) and also to my friend Rob who'd given me the low down on the Wyebank bottom pool when he was fishing it the previous Monday whilst I was on Courtfield, check RM's catch report for the 19 June on Wyebank and Courtfield

14 Barbel