Feedback & Reports

River in perfect condition and mild conditions continuing. More swims to choose from now with a tinge of colour in the water. Great day in still, dark and misty mild weather. Thanks W and U for leaving this quite wild.

8 Barbel, 2 Chub

Mild, calm and overcast day. Water had a bit of colour and up a few inches from last week. Barbel at intervals throughout afternoon until dark on pellet and meat. Weights c.4lb+ to 8-9 and 9-0 lbs.

6 Barbel

Couldn't have wished for more on an early November session. Mild, no wind, overcast all day, a decent flow and a bit of colour. WHERE were the fish?!! Found it hard to locate them, four bite's and three Barbel. Tough day. Still, I suppose we are just not meant to know all the answers. That's fishing.

3 Barbel

Another good day at The Creel. Had two good fish and an eel (I changed fishing bags and did not include a set of scales). MB had three barbel to 8lb. I spent a couple of hours trying to catch on trotted maggots but did not have a single bite. Rain stopped play.

5 Barbel, 1 Other

Took advantage of a little bit of extra water coming through for a day on one of my favourite beats. Could not manage a bite all day but the barbel switched on at dusk for some last minute frantic action. Five barbel best at 8lbs on pellet.

5 Barbel

Yet another lovely day fishing on the Wye. Started off on the float but could only manage a baby trout. Moved onto feeder but weed made that difficult! Moved down stream and had some nice chub and a barbel. A very nice well maintained beat with easy access to swims.

1 Trout, 2 Barbel, 9 Chub, 1 Other

A very foggy day in the Wye Valley. A few salmon crashing and abundant bird life. Only half a dozen canoes all day. Fish came to ledgered boilies.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub, 1 Other

Great day, quite a bit of floating weed.most fish coming at dusk on pellets.in up steam area. Lovely beat.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub

River was ideal, had good flow and some colour. Started with Elips pellets with feeder in the morning but no success. At about midday, switched to 1" meat cubes using inline ledger and fished further out in main flow, bites started immediately. Lost a couple of Barbel in weed and landed two fish 7.8lb & 5.5lb. After lunch there was a lot of freshly cut branches and debris coming down river, I presume from bank maintenance work further upstream, it became difficult to fish so I went to watch the rugby final. Spoke to the other ticket holder further downstream who had at least a dozen barbel on pellets & feeder - so don't rule out pellets based on my report.

2 Barbel

Lovely bit of river, with good access, we used groundbait feeders with pellet/maggot with groundbait pluged ends, we caught 5 barbel & 2 chub during the main part of the day, using pellet on the hook, 5 more barbel caught early evening as it started to get dark, testing conditions due to weed drifting downstream causing frequent recasting.
All fish were mint condition and went back well/strongly.
We look forward to revisiting the venue.

10 Barbel, 2 Chub