Feedback & Reports

Got to the river around 12.30pm and looked ok but still pulling through hard. Phoned in the booking - £20.75! Bit heavy for 1/2 a day. Anyway, fed a few swims over the bridge with bread mash and 10+ elips pellets in each. Set up just the 1 feeder rod and opted to fish off the fast water rolling the bait through! Nothing 1 1/2 hrs later. Put a 4oz lead on and fished static for another hour! Blank. This was repeated on the 3 lower swims. 4hrs, not a touch so decided to up sticks and move to the bottom swim road side (normally a banker) never fed anything! Fished with bread, meat and pellet, not a sniff! On a poor day like this watching the black vultures work the river you really do wonder "what are they, what are they feeding on and what is their presence doing to the winter fishing" here on the Wye. Hope it picks up by the 16th June.

Caught one Barbel of 10lb 9oz, on hook bait of home made cheese paste, with a maggot feeder, in high level fast flowing river about 15' from bank. Any further could not hold bottom. A fantastic fish caught (pity only one) on a river devastated by our resent flooding. Well worth the 2hr drive from Devon. Will be back soon to fish further down the stretch.

1 Barbel

Great to be back out fishing on the river with sun on our backs. Lots of bites and a few fish caught. Amazing to see the debris in the trees from the recent floods, banks drying out nicely though. 2 poachers made attempts to fish throughout the day, Adam FIsher was called and the offenderes were removed. Useful bit if info to be able to phone Adam. Thanks WUF.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Blanked! River still high and coloured but falling steadily. Couple of Salmon active in eddies but nowt else to report. Thought we might pick up a few barbel or chub but hey thats fishing for you. I suppose after the wild weather we are just recovering from we should be grateful for a day on the banks no matter what the outcome.

First anglers to visit this new stretch. River within it’s banks but chocolate in colour and roaring through. Testing conditions throughout with 5oz feeders struggling to hold bottom and the water level rising approximately 18 inches during the course of the day.
Clearly the upstream catchment area was seeing more rain than us (we were fortunate to only see a small number of showers all day).
CH managed to winkle out a 4lb 6oz Barbel using swimfeeder and pellet (on the second cast of the day, with a new rod making it’s debut!).
No further significant action to report but nevertheless, great to be out on the river.
Periods of warm sunshine, the obligatory Buzzards calling overhead and numerous species of ducks and geese (doubtless disappointed at the water levels receding from the fields).
Also had the great pleasure of meeting the owner of the stretch, with whom we had a very pleasant chat. Can’t wait to re-visit in the summer months.

1 Barbel

Cage feeder was the main tactic and baits included pellet, boilies, bread etc.
The river was well up which didn't help.
A nice section though. Would definitely consider when conditions are more favorable.

Only fished for 2hrs - nil catch.

Couldn't get any pike interested in lures but picked up two jacks on dead-bait. Followed up late in the day with two nice chub over 5lbs.

2 Chub, 2 Pike

The river was high and fast, one small Barbel between three anglers.

1 Barbel

Both Anglers used Halibut pellet on a hair rig. River very high, chocolate in colour but dropping around 1' over the two days. Friday 28th, 1 Barbel caught around 5:30pm about 4 pounds in weight. Chub of about 5lb caught 10 minutes later.
Both fish extremely healthy with no marks or signs of being caught before. 1 Barbel caught around 10:30am on Saturday 1st March, fish weighed around 6lb, caught on the same method. Weather wise Friday a.m was rainy but cleared later.
Saturday 1st March began with a hard frost but then produced the most stunning Sunny and at times warm day. We were given some great advice from Adam Fisher who joined us for over an hour on Saturday morning. He was recommended to us by the Wye & Usk Foundation so thank you. Thanks also to local Tim Gaunt for pulling us off the parking mound at How Caple as our van had got stuck and we had been struggling to get it off for an hour or more when he stopped to help. We stayed once again with Carol at The Old Mill in Hoarwithy, for us
there is quite simply nowhere better.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub