Feedback & Reports

Although I am a great fisherman and I've caught all kinds of fish, this time luck was not on our side, but me and my partner had a nice day. The river was in perfect condition, was perhaps time variant with a little rain and sun. We had some bites and watched carp and trout. It was a beautiful afternoon.

We fished from dawn til dusk and on a very high river. Although the water was ripping through at a fair pace, it was nicely coloured and showed promise for a good days fishing. We fished using pellet, meat and paste using both static and rolling tactics.
It was hard going all day and despite our best efforts the barbel didn't show; having said this we had three very nice chub and a very good day on a beautiful river.
We had hoped that our fortunes would change during that magic hour just after dusk but a visit from a hunting otter put pay to that!
Having not fished the Wye before some local knowledge and advice from the bailiff would have been welcome; however, he didn't contact me until the day after we had fished.

3 Chub

A tricky day. The high river conditions cut off the lower stretch of Wyebank that I was hoping to access so I fished peg one and the river mouth from after lunch instead. Lighter float tackle and worm brought a chublet and dace a chuck, nothing on the pellet feeder until dusk when one 4lb chub made a welcome appearance.

1 Chub

Good day, really tricky conditions. But still 4 barbel caught!

4 Barbel

Due to the recent wet weather the access track along the river is virtually impassable (and a bit dangerous) at the moment even with a 4x4.
River was up and coloured managed to catch a few moderate barbel.

4 Barbel

Fished all swims,nothing caught. River flowing really fast and muddy colour. First blank on WUF waters. Thats fishing.

One eel caught and a probable barbel lost fishing the right hand bank opposite the island.

1 Other

1 chub. Flow a bit fast kept getting caught on the bottom. Very dirty water.

1 Chub

River had a nice colour and pace to it. Was kept busy with 13 chub to 5lb on pellet. Forgot how far it was back to the car from pumping station but enjoyed the walk after the days fishing.

13 Chub

Tough day on a great looking beat. We started on the upper beat on the first peg by the orchard, It looked fantastic, good colour, good level, pushing through a bit though. Stayed there for a couple of hours, to our amazement nothing caught. We moved upstream into the woods and found a couple of fishable areas. G W caught 2 chub about 4lb each, K W caught 1 chub about 3lb. We moved back down to the orchard and K W caught 1 more chub, about 3lb.
There are not too many pegs on the upper stretch. Next visit I will go to the lower beat and will hopefully do better. Lovely beat, fantastic wildlife.

4 Chub