Feedback & Reports

Caught 2 barbel in between the pillars from the first swim of the beat, both barbel weighing 7lb. The first barbel I caught I noticed there was someone's barbed hook still in the fishes mouth along with a trace and swivel. My barbless hook just came straight out with one finger but the barbed would not budge so lucky I had my forceps on me I managed to get the hook out, there was a bit of blood but the fish was ok. I gave the barbel plenty of time to recover. 3rd fish I caught was from middle of the beat, another barbel, this time weighing 6lb. 4th fish I caught was a small chub of about 2lb. I didn't weigh the chub but caught it a bit further up the beat.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

1 Barbel, 7 Chub, 1 Other

4 chub to 2lbs and 1 barbel to 6lbs in the first hour then weed started drifting down river.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

4 Barbel on pellet. Another hard day.

4 Barbel

It was tough going with the river low and gin clear. We persevered and made the most of a spell in the evening to land a couple of nice barbel to 8lbs 11ozs!

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

Fished ledger, meat. River,low and clear. Accommodation Flanesford Priory. Fished Lower Hill Court saturday, same method, 2 barbel, 2 chub.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

After guiding S and N yesterday they tried on their own. They said the canoe traffic was even worst during the day. Again the fish were caught early and late. At one point during the day they had 5 people diving in and swimming around in the swim. To be fair one chap had lost his camera over the side. They didn't find it! I suggested they asked the divers to bring back a few feeders. There must be 100's down there. No wonder they didn't catch for a while after this. Still 9 barbel a couple of 8lbs and a beauty of 10lbs 4oz all weighed of course. Not sure how many chub they caught but there must have been some. Nothing like the beauty of 5lbs 12oz the previous day.
Over the 2 day period they only lost 3 feeders. I know when I first fished the swim I lost 10 in one day. Thats why local knowledge is helpful. This was their first visit to the Wye and certainly not the last.

9 Barbel

Fished from 4 o clock until dark. All fish caught from faster water at top of beat on boilie and pellet.

7 Barbel, 1 Chub

A common carp of about 2lb. Both the carp and the chub (1lb) were in mint condition. Caught using sweetcorn and luncheon meat baits on a size 12 with 3lb bs bottom.
A perfect morning, but ultimately finished around lunchtime as was descended on by around 30 ramblers, picnickers and dogs. Did a litter pick around lake shore before leaving.

1 Chub, 1 Other

Great looking bit of river but struggled to find fish. One 4lb chub after putting baits in countless fishy looking spots. May try again in winter.

1 Chub