Feedback & Reports

First time Fishing here (11am to 7.45pm in the first swim. Water was low and had good colour but little flow. A snag to my left accounted for 3 feeders until Don came along & suggested casting 3/4 distance. Result was a lovely barbel weighing 7lb 9oz on 14ml halibut pellet. Thank you Don - scenery was beautiful & I will hopefully return despite needing crampons to access some swims after the recent rain.

1 Barbel

Fished from 11am until 6pm Very slow. Just odd fish throughout the day.

5 Barbel, 5 Chub

A blank day was saved by a consolation end of day chub..tried most swims on the beat. Fishing was difficult.

1 Chub

A very enjoyable day, landed 3 barbel to 10lb lost another 2 ,meat and pellet tactics.

3 Barbel

Unfortunately my visit coincided with the first heavy rain of the autumn which brought the river level up by a couple of feet. The river was having a flush through so was full of rubbish. I found a fishable swim on beat 5/6 and managed a few nice Chub to 4ib 2oz. No barbel today.

4 Chub

River rose rapidly in the afternoon and covered the croys. Lots of weed coming down so abandoned search for barbel.

4 Barbel, 3 Chub

Had problems finding river until helpful farmer explained I had the map upside down. Not many accessable swims but did manage to catch a 10lb 3oz barbel.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Arrived at 8am and decided to walk the beat and put a bit of hemp in. The bottom end looked really good but thought we would work down from hut and finish there in evening. It was still low but looked very fishy. Tom caught 2 chub in first few casts on pellet and we thought we had made good move starting here. I fished more downstream, 3/4 of the way across and had 4 barbel to about 7lb before 11ish. Mark struggled as this was 1st time on Wye and isn't that used to river fishing but seemed to enjoying himself. I lost a fish before lunch but it didn't feel like a barbel or chub - it straighted my hook. I don't know of any carp but that's what it felt like.
We started moving downstream and got to bottom corner at 2ish. Tom had a 4.5lb chub in great nick. I caught 3 chub and 2 barbel before we stopped for food. After our break we noticed a the river rising quite quickly and lots of weed and debris coming down making it very hard to fish. We got to bottom end which was nigh on impossible to fish because of the weed. I got 1 barbel and 1 chub before we all gave it up as a bad job. The river rose so quickly it had gone over the spots we fished off in the morning. We were gutted at not starting at bottom as this seems to be the hotspot but to be honest, I prefer to work hard for a fish and we did that. We had told Mark we were saving the best swims till last but we never got to them as we were packing up we wern't holding out much hope for Thursday on Sugwas Court. All the fish were caught on pellet except 1 chub which fell to cheese paste. To be continued....

7 Barbel, 7 Chub

Nice days fishing - 5 barbel up to 7lb plus 14 chub. Lost a huge fish too. Looking forward to next year. Many thanks to Don.

I fished the lower end of the beat for a short afternoon and evening session using pellet and feeder. River was nice with a little color from recent rain. Had a great afternoon taking four barbel to almost nine pounds, and five chub.

4 Barbel, 5 Chub