Feedback & Reports

A perfect overcast but mild day to be by the river. Lots of kingfishers, herons, and other wildlife to keep you entertained between bites. A few canoes throughout the day but all very polite and courteous to us as anglers. There were a few anglers on the other side of the river at the upstream end of the fishery. They were fishing towards the opposite side but didn't cause a problem and easy to slot in between. Many of the swims at this end were overgrown but I personally preferred the swims along the downstream end with more depth and flow along the near margin. It was quite difficult fishing even though the conditions looked perfect with a rising river after some rain. However the barbel that we caught were scale perfect and fought like demons in the strong flow. One was only about 8oz (a sign of good things to come) but the others were 5lb and 8lb. All caught on hair-rigged pellet.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Hard day: 2 barbel and 1 chub on pellet.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Hard fishing again, or we got it wrong. A lot of debris coming through from the rain the day before. Great stretch of river though and will visit again. We did manage 2 chub and a barbel around 7lb. Felt as though the fishing was picking up as we had to head home.
Wish we could be fishing this week with coloured and rising water level. All fish fell to feeder tactics.
Great day all in all. Can't wait to get booked up again.
Anyone looking for accommodation, we would highly recommend the Cottage of Content at Carey.
Note for WUF. Noticed no dogs allowed on this stretch yet the stretch is along a public footpath and dog walkers were present all day.
Would just have liked to have brought my dog along.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Drizzle to start with very slow going after a long time moved down stream a bit and had bites almost straight away first fish 5 lb 8 then the second one was 8 lb 1, haven't caught a barbel for many years so to catch two made a good day into a great day out will be back more than once more .

2 Barbel

I was disappointed with how overgrown and hard to get to the river it was. On the entire beat, I only found one spot you could reasonably fish without having a 20 foot landing net. The river looked great, with lots of sign of fish, but no realistic chance of catching them.
Would not recommend as it stands.

This beat is incredible, after no action the previous day further up river today was the complete opposite. I decided to fish purely for chub and wasn't disappointed with so many fish caught that I lost count. Feeding pellets for 40 mins before casting a speci waggler across it was fast and furious action with 3 fish over 5lbs and probably 12 over 4lb. Thanks to Colin for looking after the beat and all at WUF.

30 Chub

7 Barbel, 13 Chub

7 Barbel

Lovely days fishing sitting in the rain most of the day
All fish on pellet. Fished in the woods, slippery walk back.

5 Barbel, 6 Chub

A very wet evening on the banks of the Wye! We travelled down from Yorkshire today and got to the beat about 5pm. After what can only be described as an interesting walk/slide down to the peg we quickly took cover under our brollies.
M had 7 barbel and 2 chub and despite Dman fishing the same swim with the same tactics he couldn't get a proper bite. Very odd but a good laugh and a memorable evening as always!

7 Barbel, 2 Chub