Feedback & Reports

Lovely autumn day, river low, clear and warm. Spent the day trotting sweetcorn on the centrepin, under a chubber float in the main current. 6 chub up to 5lb and one immaculate barbel of about 4 1/2lb. Great way to spend the day.

1 Grayling, 1 Barbel, 6 Chub

Tough day on a low river which was clear. 1 barbell, a lovely fish of approx. 8lb. 3 chub from 2lb to 4lb. A nice beat. It's a bit of a walk and the banks are a bit wild.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Hard and difficult days fishing river low and clear very little stream. Plenty of Canoes.

1 Barbel

Largest about 8lb and all caught around dusk. Very low and clear.

3 Barbel

Maggot and hemp, feeder, 4' fluorocarbon, small hook. River low, mist first thing, hot, cloudy spells. JB silvers on the mag feeder. Barbel last thing 6lbs bracket.

1 Barbel, 8 Chub

Low river, misty first thing, bright and sunny. Mag, feeder. Small chub up to 1.3/4lbs. 6lbs bracket barbel, last thing. JB silvers and small chub.

1 Barbel, 8 Chub

One of the driest Septembers on record I understand and this was reflected in the river conditions. Water very low with hardly any flow, tried pellet feeder in the middle of the beat and trotting meat in the faster water by the island with a negative result.

I could lie and say my first fish was a 'double' but according to my new scales it weighed in at 9lb 13oz, a PB for me. The other one was a mere 5lb 8oz caught on last knockings. Both fish in superb condition and fell to usual halibut pellets and groundbait feeder.
Thoroughly enjoyable day, even though bites were slow, presumably due to low water conditions. Canoe traffic was light and not an issue. I was surprised to see a David Walliams look alike making his way down river towards the Bristol Channel.

2 Barbel

Weather was always going to make life difficult with low water & sunny conditions from 8am onwards. Even when the sun went in, it didn't seem to improve matters at Loxsters pool(RH bank). We had a fishless first 3hrs before moving. At about 12.30 now fishing some streamier water on beat 4(LHB), I landed a barbel around 7lb, my friend picking one up a tad heavier within a half hour before it went dead again. Deciding that faster moving water was the way forward, we moved on to beat 5. I landed another 4 fish up to 7.5lb and a chub of around 4lb, while my friend landed a similar mixture of chub and barbel before the light went. A great day's fishing considering the conditions.

9 Barbel, 5 Chub

We arrived at this lovely beat to find the water very low and clear. The bright sunshine did not feel us with much hope on our first visit to the Wye and we decided to trot with maggots after no success with the feeder. Difficult conditions meant we only caught 5 good chub but plenty of Chublets and Dace made for a very enjoyable late afternoon and evening.

5 Chub, 20 Other