Feedback & Reports

Started on upper beat. I stuck out for 1 chub on meat. Noisy pike anglers on opposite bank. Went back to lower beat and caught 3 barbel on maggot and feeder as yesterday. Thanks Wye & Usk.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling, 3 Barbel, 5 Chub

Conditions looked good and I hoped for a barbel but only managed some chub. Still nice to be out on the bank.

5 Chub

Weekend and season end fishing in the hope of last years weather. Not to be this year with water temperatures of 42.8f on the Saturday and 42.5f on the Sunday. Fishing the upper stretch I had a trout and a nice chub. We moved downstream to the slower water and late in the day I.S. caught two barbel 6lb 3oz and 8lb 10oz in quick succession.
Sunday was heading towards arctic conditions and we abandoned the trip after three hours.

Very cold day with river running high and coloured. Fished with swim feeder, red maggott to catch good 5 pound Chub and 1 pound 12 oz Grayling. Very muddy banks after recent flooding!

1 Grayling, 2 Chub

Fishing was slow, only one barbel to the two of us on pellet. We have fished here several times before and will be back again in better weather. Thanks to Don for his advice and help.

1 Barbel

Blanked! Relatively warm weather with a high, coloured river, should have been pretty decent Barbel conditions but I just couldn't find the fish.

Very tough day, we went in high hopes of the milder recent weather bringing the barbel on to feed but we were wrong!! Tried several swims from the power lines down, with various hook baits but couldn't get a touch. Right at the end, NC had a pike follow his feeder and it subsequently grabbed a plug the first time of asking (glad I bought a tiny bit of pile gear with such an occurrence in mind). I think we probably needed about two weeks of better weather rather than two days. And with the current forecast, it looks like it will be next season before I venture this way again. Thanks to all at WUF, directions and service all first class as usual, just a shame the fish weren't playing ball!

1 Pike

Swim feeder using Meat, Maggot and Pellet. Three barbel - 13.5lb, 10.5lb, and 8lb.

3 Barbel

One lost fish on first cast then no further action to either rod on any of the 'swims' tried. Conditions looked right but could not locate the fish. Only other real excitement was when a very large pike (probably mid 20's) attempted to take the feeder on the retrieve.

Low and clear fishing maggot and feeder on lower beat. Down to 5/6lb flurocarbon 14/16 hooks. Moved to find fish mainly 2 rod lengths out near cover. 2 caught, 1 struggled, I blanked. Stayed at Red Lion, Madley. Very welcoming.

5 Barbel, 6 Chub