Feedback & Reports

A difficult day in bright sunshine and a lot of drifting weed , managed a few fish throughout the afternoon by ringing the changes. Very few swims on the upper stretch needs a lot of work to clear swims.

River back to low water conditions and the fishing slow.

1 Barbel, 7 Chub

Well, what a difference a day makes. No discernible change in temperature, light wind, so back in the same swim. Same tactics, rig, bait. Just one barbel to 8lb taken in the morning, otherwise quiet. I will be back.

1 Barbel

Arrived for first light and after walking the entire beat, opted to start in the Wood Crib. At 11am and without a bite, the decision to move was simple. Moved up stream and baited various spots that took my fancy and settled into the swim with the drain cover (done alright there previously). Again, very slow so roved about flicking luncheon meat under bushes and overhanging trees. Eventually felt something pull back and instantly recognized the frenzied fight as only an Eel fights, damn those serpents! Still, a fish is a fish. Resettled back at the drain and didn't have to wait long for the first Barbel, a stunning little fish of around 2lb. Followed this with a Chub of 4lb 7oz. It was not very long before the 3ft quiver came into the equation, eventually resulting in a barbel of 7lb 4oz. This fish gave absolutely everything in the fight and took nearly 10mins to recover. She went away strong and well in the end. No sooner had I recast, the tip was bouncing again, this time a chub of around 3lb. Finally as the light began to fail the best fish of the day returned to the folds of the landing net, weighing in at 8lb 4oz. Looked every bit of a high 9lb fish, tiredness had obviously set in clouding my judgment! All fish fell to either sweet corn or halibut pellet, hair rigged over a feeder of hemp and crushed halibut pellet laced with corn and 6mm pellet.
All in all a satisfactory day considering the conditions and the lack of water. Only one disappointing thing to report. When I was dropping bait in various swims, I arrived at one, to find a half used tin of sweet corn, an empty beer can and various other wrappings and the lid off of the sweet corn discarded in the undergrowth. I cleared this up and took it away with me to dispose of. I do hope that this was the remnants of a poacher and not an angler that had booked through the WUF!
Thank you Don and WUF for keeping this lovely beat available.

3 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

Fished to pool near The Island.
2 Barbel - 7.4lbs and 5.4lbs.
2 Chub - 2.5lbs and 3lbs.
Fishing then disturbed by an incident involving a group of canoeist. Two boats hit a tree in the fast water at the top of the stretch the river was covered in allsorts of equipment.
At first annoyed with the disturbance but quickly realised that a member of their party was hanging from the tree in the fast water, he could not swim and didn't have a life jacket on. We managed to get a life jacket to him and then get him on to dry land.
Pleased to be able to help but no further fish caught...

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Firstly big thanks to Terry Ward for putting me on to the fish. Brilliant day all round, excellent fishery, wild, clean, and no litter. Caught from the first cast and continued like that all day. Fished from the gravel bar on Beat 4 and later in Loxsters Pool. Landed everything I hooked. Biggest chub was 4lb 10oz and biggest barbel was 9lb 10oz. Again thanks for an excellent days fishing on my birthday. Will certainly book again.

16 Barbel, 6 Chub

Arrived at the river at 2pm to fish the Wye for the first time on recommendation from a friend and Wye regular Bob Gascoigne. The level was low with a brown tinge and the conditions were tremendous bright t-shirt weather. Made my way to the bottom end of the beat. I fished a groundbait feeder to the far bank and caught 10 Barbel and 6 Chub including a Chub of 5lb, a new personal best. A beautiful river in a beautiful setting maintained well, I'll be sure to return.

10 Barbel, 6 Chub

Best Barbel was 8lb 12ozs and the chub were caught to 4lbs 8ozs. All fish were caught on various combinations of feeder fished pellet from both ends of the beat. Excellent days fishing.

23 Barbel, 12 Chub

River was low and coloured when I got there at 15:00. I had a 6lb and 9lb 4oz immediately and thought it was going to be a bumper afternoon but it then went dead. Just on dusk I had another pair at 6lb 7oz and 10lb followed by a late Chub of just under 4lb.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

Arrived to find track nice and dry which made this stretch very accessible for us. We had good look round and found many swims. We started fishing all spread around beaches area which was very comfortable. Two of us started on float and caught some chub and one barbel, the others started on pellet feeder a few chub and odd barbel were taken through out the morning. We then had a lunch break. After lunch we resumed in same area with one of us trying some different areas on float catching some more chub and dace and a few more barbel and chub coming to pellet feeder from beaches. Then, after another tea break we settled in for the evening all now on pellet feeder on beaches catching at regular intervals. At 6.30ish two anglers moved to new swims catching three more barbel all anglers caught barbel biggest 9.05. General stamp of fish very good. Weather was warm a little sun and some cloud, a great day had by all.

18 Barbel