Feedback & Reports

The river was high but very clear. We caught one chub on spam using a ground bait feeder and halibut pellets. We didn't get any other bites.

1 Chub

Only one small pike to show for my efforts, nice to be back on the Wye though.

1 Pike

Fishing for pike & perch on dead-baits and lures. A number of swims tried, 1 pike to a lure around 9lbs. River level ok, condition good, could do with a touch of colour. Thanks to WUF for venues such as this one and for the booking system.

Difficult conditions on a fairly high river. Only really possible to fish slacks in the margins. 1 out of season trout (12 oz) and 1 chub (3lb) caught on maggot feeder + 1 pike (14lb) on dead bait. We stayed at 'Charades' in Southbank Road, Hereford, which was perfect for our needs (recommended).

1 Trout, 1 Chub, 1 Pike

Barbel not feeding but 6 chub made it worth the effort.

6 Chub

11 chub on bread, 9 from beat 2 and 2 from beat 3. I do wonder wether the resident otter is having an effect on stock levels on beat 3? Today was the fourth time in as many visits I have seen an otter at Whitney. Otters and cormorants in one stretch can't be good.

11 Chub

As close as I want to come to the B-word on WUF waters! A last minute booking, having read some pretty lean results and a few blanks reported in the last week or so, I didn't hold out much hope for barbel - but thought the local chub might still be game. Not so! Our first time at How Caple and it's another beautiful stretch - however, this grey drizzly day was as dull and lifeless under the water as it was above. While my brother searched for a pike with no luck, having eaten my lunch by about 9am for something to do a chub of about 3.5lbs finally gave me reason to put the landing net together. Happy days!
Still, better to be on the bank than not and we're lucky enough to have the Wye on our doorstep when others have to come a long way to enjoy it. We tip our hats to you!
Thanks WUF.
PS another 14 greedy cormorants to chalk up on cormorantwatch.org too. Our record sighting this year still stands at an appalling 66, over the Lugg in Hereford.

1 Chub

Started near the head of the Island on the bend in two beautiful looking pegs, with steady flow on the inside and pacy water towards middle for pellet feeder attack. Unfortunately although looking perfect, little or no action other than trout and grayling on float. No signs on feeder so started leap frogging back down the stretch on the feeder and pellet, meat, maggots, bollies etc. Only proper fish being a 4lb Chub caught in middle of stretch on feeder and meat as light was fading, although whole day was dull and overcast. No other anglers (or Barbel for that matter) seen on three days fishing on WUF waters in spite of near perfect conditions.

1 Trout, 2 Grayling, 1 Chub

River just returning to normal winter levels although the bottom swims were still inaccessible.
Fished the inside line with maggot on the middle section taking a nice wild brownie about 3/4 of a pound and some decent chub, all 4 to 5lb.

1 Trout, 4 Chub

Tried several swims, river was fast with a bit of colour, biggest chub was 4lb caught on a bunch of maggots. Also had a small dace, hooked & lost a barbel late in the afternoon. another angler appeared out of the undergrowth on the other bank caught a pike then vanished again. Nice beat will come back when there is less flow.

2 Chub, 1 Other