Feedback & Reports

River level had dropped back since last week, canoeist will have to get out here and walk to Ross soon. Still the fish are there just had to move about to find them. Picked the odd chub out to start with rolling meat. Had to wait till early evening for the barbel to feed and need some care with landing the fish because of the shallow water and the rocks. Lost a nice fish, looked like a double cut me off at the net then caught one with a braided hooklink still attached. Thankfully the hook was barbless so there was no problem. Also, some care is needed to nurse these fish before their released in the shallow conditions.

5 Barbel, 4 Chub

Fished in the shallows upstream of the orchard from 11am - 6pm. We were gutted to have to set off on the long drive up to Yorkshire at 6pm as the fishing was so good. Simple tactics picking off the odd fish every so often all afternoon long.

8 Barbel, 1 Chub

Many thanks to Colin and Woody for their advice on where to find the barbel.

4 Barbel, 12 Chub

Many thanks to Colin and Woody for their advice on where to find the barbel.

4 Barbel, 12 Chub

Fishing very slow. Low levels. Fish caught on pellets.

2 Barbel

River low and fish are shoaled up. Caught late in day on usual pellet tactics.

10 Barbel, 5 Chub

Difficult fishing with a lot of weed coming down the river. Only a few swims fishable with low water conditions. Found a few fish using feeder/pellet combination.

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

The river was very low and clear, managed to catch 1 barbel and 2 chub on 8mm pellets from below the boat house as the light was fading.
My first visit to this stretch of the Wye and I will fish it again, hopefully when the conditions are more favourable.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Fished from 7am on an overcast day with a downstream breeze. I decided to head for the woods after the clearance work. I vowed that I would tavel lighter after last facing the coronary inducing hill but alas it still presents a challenge when carrying armfuls of tackle and a hefty rucksack. Entering through the bottom of the woods there is a black bike lock on the metal gate so you need to climb over (not sure if I was given the code on my booking and missed it?) but thats ok because access through the woods after the clearance work is brilliant and opens up a number of other swims that were previously unfishable, you still need a bit of "mountain goat" in you to get to the swims but it's worth it. I opted to fish the Lucky Stone swim with feeder and Halibut pellets and it really was a bite a cast, only my inability to hit them kept me from catching more. I ended the day with four barbel (to 8lb) and five chub. I lost two further barbel.
Be aware the rocks here are sharp and you'll need a good supply of hooks as they are easily blunted and sturdy tackle, my 2lb barbel rod was bent double at times.
A fantastic days fishing. Cheers WUF.

4 Barbel, 5 Chub

Oops, please see catch report for the 13th for the total catch over both days.
Barbel weighed from 1lb to a best of 9lb and a good few fish in the 7-8lb range.