Feedback & Reports

Frosty start, variable weather (sunshine and showers, plus wind). River falling after recent rain with nice colour, fish taken on pellet and luncheon meat

4 Barbel, 3 Chub

Conditions seemed ideal for barbel - the river was running slightly coloured and at a nice pace. Despite trying many swims along the whole beat, we only had a chub and barbel to show for our efforts. But we'll be back! The W&UF paid a flying visit and it was nice to see them out and about walking the river. We stayed at the excellent Cottage of Content where we enjoyed a warm welcome and excellent hospitality, food and drink.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

The river was low and clear and coming off the back of 3 frosts. Two barbel were caught by one angler on meat and the other blanked which is a shame as this beat has been very kind to us in the past.

2 Barbel

Lovely day and fishery is still kept in very good order. Thank you Tony

2 Grayling, 1 Chub

Had a day fishing here for my birthday and what a beautiful spot. Unfortunately I took my dog and on walking around trying to find a likely spot he found and ate a old baited hooklink so I had to rush to vets for an operation. Please all anglers take all rubbish home with you. Dog is now recovering and I will be back just on my own this time.
WUF Note: We were very sorry to hear to hear about this and hope the dog's recovery is going well. We cannot stress enough the importance of anglers taking all litter and unused tackle home with them. This is the kind of distressing incident that occurs when they don't and, unfortunately, it isn't the first report of a dog swallowing a discarded tackle recently.

Turned up today with the temperature gauge on the car showing 0 degrees, so we knew we were in for a hard time, water level was down about 12 to 18 inches on the last time we fished here, so we decided to walk the stretch looking for deeper water, I think that if we found a pool that resembled an abyss it wouldn't of helped us today, the two of us never had a tap all day. The highlight was a salmon jumping (twice) and a kingfisher making a couple of appearances.
ps. Please heed the WUF's warning about the wooded area, it is quite treacherous in places !

Low, clear and a horrible downstream wind made for a challenging day.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

A hard days fishing. Conditions were frosty, cold and windy with gin clear waters. Struggled to get a bite at all but a cracking stretch...

2nd day on the Wye and with the low clear conditions came the bright sun light all day. we had to sit it out until the bitter end, CH had the 2 barbel on boilies as the sun disappeared and an earlier 3lb trout on maggot, I had to settle for a small solitary chub

1 Trout, 2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Very difficult conditions with frost to start,strong winds and a very low clear river. We fished the top end above car park area with the usual feeder/pellet/meat/boilie without a sniff. After a nice hot bowl of soup for lunch we dropped down to the bottom field where we knew there is some slower deep water. I decided to trott maggots which was difficult in the high wind but did manage 2 cracking brownies 1 of which was over 2lb and a small grayling. The wife was still on feeder/pellet tactics and still hadn't had a bite, after a change to maggot hook bait she instantly was attached to a good barbel which matched her previous pb of 8.2lb. We then had fish steadily with the biggest being 8.8lb barbel and a 4lb chub. Thanks again Wye and Usk for the opportunity to access this stunning beat. Great access and plenty swims.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling, 4 Barbel, 4 Chub