Feedback & Reports

Bright sunny day, river near normal levels and clear but still pushing through. Took temp of water around 6-7 deg, chose to fish first swim over the foot bridge. Fed the head of the swim (from behind the willow) with 2 balls of heavy halibut ground bait laced with small pre-soaked micro pellets, gave this 20mins to work down into the swim. Fished over this with hair rigged elipse pellets for 3 hrs with out a touch. A change of bait resulted in 2 small salmon par and a 1.5lbs chub. Went back on the feeder and pellet and at aprx 5-30pm took a 4-5lb chub. Lovely to be out and warm in the sun even though fishing was slow.

2 Chub

Had a day on the river on Saturday at Courtfield. Unfortunately I blanked, but my partner had 2 x Barbel, best 8 1/4 lb and a small chubb. River in good condition, spoke to the riverkeeper who was very informative and told us that no barbel had come out of there since January.
Will be back in the summer.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

River very low & clear could see the bottom half way across in many swims. Moved around but only had bites in two smims. 3 chub caught 3, 4 & 5lbs all on bread. Very enjoyable day & although it didn't help the fishing it was nice to see the sun.

3 Chub

7lb pike caught on lure.

1 Pike

Our 1st visit to the upper Wye, hoping to catch a Grayling, my first. The river was clear and low with hazy sunshine. Both my companion and I had a great day watching the Dippers, Red Kites and other wildlife on this beautiful stretch of river, despite the lack of fish. 5 Trout and a Grayling between us to long trotting. We will be back for the grayling next season. Thanks for a memorable day.

5 Trout, 1 Grayling

Arrived in morning it was cold but river looked in perfect condition. Had a couple of knocks and bangs and one run but got snagged. Had to leave with a blank but will definitely try this beat again.

Very pleasant day sadly no Pike. Tried both dead baits and plugs.

River low and clear and very cold!! Trotted maggot in all the likely places and most of the unlikely ones, got interest in 2 swims which both required wading and fish picked up at 40 yards, couldn't draw them up the swim and a swirling downstream wind made presentation difficult.
Had one good Grayling of about 2 1/2 lb (left scales at home!!) and some nice Chub over 4lb backed up by some small brownies and two other nice Grayling.
All in all an enjoyable if hard day, glad to get out of the icy water and in front of the fire at the Red Lion!!
Can't wait for next Autumn and another crack at those elusive Grayling shoals.

10 Trout, 3 Grayling, 5 Chub

9 Chub 1 WBT all on bread. River level was as low as it has been all season and the fish were hard to find. We fished every swim from the bottom field to the top wood and found fish in 5 of them. 1 dead Pike and 1 dead Barbel around 8lb on bankside. Lots of signs of Otters on the banks.

1 Trout, 9 Chub

Tried 5 different swims including the big slack at the top of the beat but not a bite to be had. Lovely stretch of river, will be back when the weather warms up & hopefully the fish feeding.