Feedback & Reports

A cooler and overcast day with hopes high for a better result than on Monday. Although the fish weren't jumping on the hook, we did find the fish in the deeper water again. 8 Barbel caught between us and 3 chub - best barbel at 7.5lb all on either meat or pellet.

Had a great day on wyebank today, started at 10am fishing from the groin next to bottom pool and had 2 barbel around 6-7 lb between 11am and midday after a wasted 1st hour trying to fish the far bank tree line in an impossibly fast flow before I realised the barbel were only 1 3rd of the way out in the walking paced water towards the bottom pool to my left. Then had a 2 hour lunch break (my fault for taking the wife!!) before moving to the last swim on the bottom pool after a quick chat to Don the bailiff who put me on the fish straight away and caught 2 chub ,one of which was over 20 inches long and in winter could have easily gone 6-7 lb on my first two casts using luncheon meat. Then a swap to pellets on the hair saw me catch 3 barbel between 6 and 7.5lbs before a I got snapped on the rocks and whilst re-tackling up about 50 kids in 20 kayaks went noisily past and even stopped in my swim (bless them) but this clearly didn't disturb the fish as on my very next cast I had another barbel and then another to round the day off. Used groundbait feeder with hemp and pellets sandwiched in middle and a 3 foot hooklength. Cheers WUF for another fantastic day on the wye and I will definitely be back.

Access was fine, directions easy to follow. Very short walk to first swim by the power lines. Having read the reports here, I was very pleased to find it free, then again I was the only rod booked on! Again, based on reports here I started by fishing the middle of the river to avoid the nearbank tackle graveyard. One hour in, no bites (started at 1pm btw). After an hour, I messed up a cast and it only went about a third of the way out. Best mistake I've ever made, as my hair-rigged sweetcorn fished beneath a feeder full of pellets and ground bait was snaffled, a barbel of 6.12 turned out to be the culprit. Nine of his mates followed at regular intervals throughout the afternoon. I didn't lose any tackle to snags, though a couple of fish got away by snapping my 10lb mono hook length. All in all, the best days fishing I've ever had. Thanks v. much WUF, superb fishing in superb surroundings with superb service. Fish took sweetcorn, Sonu s-pellets - never tried meat, didn't feel the need. So ten barbel between 5 pounds and 8 pounds. Wonderful.

6lb and 4lb Barbel and a 3lb Chub, all caught on Richworth Xtracta boilies and pellets.

The last day of our 5 day trip was spent in familiar territory with very blustery weather. During the day, we tried swims up river and had a few barbel to 6lbs 10oz and a half dozen chub to 4lbs 8oz, all on pellet. For the evening we set up in the pylon swim hoping for a final rush of barbel but they decided to be very cagey and we had to be content with three to 6lbs 2oz between us. By 7pm it died completely so we packed up for the trip home. Thanks to WUF and staff for a very enjoyable week.

1 Chub all day. Water a bit clear but very poor day. Also noticed not many swims from bridge up-stream. Just one of them days!!

Unfortunately the last day of a great trip weather today was a bit cooler with quite a strong wind. We tried to fish the more sheltered areas by the bend and ended up with 17 barbel of which R H caught 16 and 17 chub all caught on pellets and boillies. That ends five great days fishing on WUF waters and we can't thank the Foundation enough. Also a very special mention for Colin the keeper as nice and knowledgeable a man as you will ever meet. For anyone that's interested we stayed in Charades guest house in Hereford a really good B&B and Helen can tell you all about the best pubs in town.

Lovely Autumn day, blue skies and warm but quite windy. Fishing slow during the morning and early afternoon with just a couple of barbel landed to one rod at the top of the wier field. Fishing did improve later in the day with more fish landed at the top of the wier field and fish landed at the tail of the wier field near the boat house. Total for 4 rods 15 barbel and a few chub, best barbel 8lbs 14oz.
I have to comment on the walk to the venue (I appreciate the reasons behind the route change) - but it is the longest possible route to get to the river even being made to walk down the right hand side of a field as opposed to the left hand side !

All 4 of us decided to fish the top end of the fishery near to the Waterworks for 3 reasons:
1. We were carrying quite a lot of equipment( Big mistake)!! The problems of transporting it through quite wild overgrown tracks and over a fence with a style into the wood was simply not an option on a very warm day.
2. One of our party had recently had knee replacements.
3. The second parking option at the big tree midway along the main road verge is simply that, a verge "very tight for our transit van" and extremely exposed to passing traffic we didn't feel comfortable leaving our vehicle there all day (Security concern).
Don the owner was very helpful and full of information spending a lot of time explaining the swims to each of us individually and a wealth of knowledge he has too, so a Big Thank you to Don. Unfortunately the fish weren't interested and the fishing didn't live up to expectation. Bright sun and no colour in the river didn't help.
I fished the bay swim and it looked great. Started off targeting the far bank and mid river feeding 4mm halibut pellets through an open ended feeder and 8mm pellet on a hair in various combinations of short and long hairs, tails, hooks and size of pellet. I only had 2 bites all day, both were savage takes and almost certainly Barbel. They both took me into abrasive rocks on the bottom which instantly broke my 15lb braided hook lengths.
I then went on to lose 4 more feeders in a snag about 30 yards down stream 1/3 of the way across. I had no more bites and ended up with a blank. My mate A fished the new swim next to me upstream. He managed to catch 2 Barbel around 8lb and 3 Chub about 4lb. D fished the first swim and didn't get a bite all day.
T I believe fished the Single Alder swim and managed a Barbel in excess of 8lb and 3 Chub. All four of us were very disappointed in the lack of bites but did enjoy the location and scenery. On a different day things may have been completely different. I personally would not fish the Bay peg again, (I couldn't afford to)! We all feel we should have travelled light and fished the wood beat pegs. We shall put this trip down to experience and learn from it.

Bit of a tough day. We both had a couple of barbel but the downstream wind of 25 mph didnt help much. I find this beat very peggy and one where if you get fish you need to invest time and effort to maximise results. Sadly we didn't really fish it that well and the results showed. As always its great to be on the Wye. Thanks to WUF.