Feedback & Reports

I started in the Rocks area of the wooded section and landed a 3lb Chub within minutes. However no further bites were forthcoming and I moved up to Wood Crib where I took a further Chub. I changed to trotting sweetcorn and despite the attentions of the hoards of duckings I managed a nice Chub of 2lb 14ozs which gave a good account of itself on light float tackle. Don, the fishery owner arrived and advised me that some good barbel had been caught in a swim in Legg Meadow the previous day. Taking his advice, I moved and immediatly had a few knocks which turned out to be Chub and I landed one of 3lb 14ozs. Then at 3pm I had a better bite which powered off on an unmistakable barbel run. After a good battle I landed the barbel which weighed in at 9lb 3ozs. What a great end to a rather slow day, thanks Don. Oh, I almost forgot the eel.

1 Barbel, 5 Chub, 1 Other

The chub responded immediately to our offerings - mainly halibut pellets - but the barbel took a bit longer. Best chub 4.5lbs, best barbel 9lb 13oz. As always - and thanks to Colin - there was good path along the bank and plenty of potential fishing places. The cuckoo greeted us as we arrived and was still calling as we left. Another lovely day on the Wye!

14 Barbel, 9 Chub

This was the second day of 3 days on this beat. We arrived to rain and thought we could have a good days fishing, but it was hard going on a low river.

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

Wading and long trotted flake for the chub on the upper section beat 2. Had 8 in the short time there with one fish nearing the 5lb mark. I decided to give up when some canoeists decided to watch me play a chub and in doing so passed over the area I was fishing. It would be good if a message could go out to the canoeing community asking them to pass by anglers and not linger under any circumstances.
Anyway this is three miles of beautiful water.

8 Chub

All fish on Meat or Pellet.

5 Barbel, 5 Chub

Nice fishery but watch out for the cows. River was a bit low but I caught 7 Chub and had a close encounter with an Otter, which popped it's head up about 2 metres away then bolted when it saw me. Two of the Chub had teeth marks in them.

7 Chub

Booked Courtfield because of the fantastic information on the beat via both the Lower Wye Fishery website and the Facebook page.
My father and I booked up for 3 days from the 19th to the 21st in search of my first barbel. 30 barbel later to the both of us and I'm more than happy! 19 of those on the last day when we struggled to keep up wth the bites! And thats not forgetting the fantastic chub sport too! All fish came from the wooded section of the beat.
Biggest barbel was 10lb 7oz which was the only double (unfortunately to the old man). Chub were caught to just under 5lb with the vast majority being around the 3-4lb mark.
Many thanks to the WUF and Don for a fantastic trip.

30 Barbel, 17 Chub

The river looked good however I think that the fish had other things on their minds rather than feeding!

I would like to apologise to the salmon anglers for encroaching on their water. I fish this stretch every year and did not check the map before fishing, so did not realise the boundary had changed, you could've ask me to move rather than call the bailiff.
The fishing was hard as the water was low. but we did manage a barbel on the pellets and feeder.

WUF note - All anglers MUST check their beat details before fishing just in case any changes have been made. We do also understand some anglers reluctance to approach other anglers on the riverbank and calling the bailiff or the office is acceptable under these circumstances.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Arrived at around 7am and fished the wooded section. Caught a chub and a barbel (around 5lb) by 9:30am and then it went dead. Brother in law caught a chub mid afternoon and the father in law was a victim of eels.
It was a bit too hot to fish and to be honest the canoes are getting worse. Whilst I understand the business reasoning around making hay when the sun shines, the owners of the canoe rental firms should have more respect for other river users.
I lost tackle due to people going straight through the lines, endless noise and general messing around. Don't get me wrong I'm not a kill joy but when someone wants to get in the river to swin downstream in a swim you are fishing it's not really on.
Need to get this under control, it's a shame because it's a great place to fish, I just don't need the hastle when I take the day off to fish, to put up with this.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub, 5 Other