Feedback & Reports

One Rudd fell to sweetcorn early on and a lot of missed bites followed from many more small rudd. Tried every bait possible but to no avail. A couple of carp could be seen swimming around towards the end of the day but were frustratingly impossible to tempt. Lovely location though, all in all, a very pleasant but sadly fishless day.

Top pool completely clogged with weed and totally un-fishable, bottom pool very low with a film of oily residue on the surface.
Have reported to WUF and am still awaiting a response and refund.

River only 2 foot above normal level but still pushing through with colour dropping out and some weed visable a third way accross and bottom in the side.
I fished the middle to lower stretch and found the Chub feeding in great numbers following recent spawning and some even still in spawn. The Barbel were either slower to the bait or not so hungry as I finished the day with 27 Chub to 4lb 8oz and 12 Barbel to 8lb 5oz.
It was good to see numbers of fry have survived the floods even if they were small.
Excellent information from Colin Richardson and customer service from Wye and Usk.

Last day and a bit more cloud cover. I've had an enjoyable day catching 20 Chub over 2lbs with the two biggest at 4lbs 12ozs and 5lbs, plus 3 Barbel to 8lbs. P has fished the waterworks end of the meadow for a 6lb Barbel and 2 Chub to 4lbs 2ozs. A has caught 2 Barbel to 7lbs 14ozs sharing the last swim on the meadow with J who had 3 Barbel to 7lbs 3ozs. Bait and tactics the same. Canoe traffic very heavy today, 99.9% are fine but one or two today were a pain, it's incredible how such well spoken people can be so bad mannered!! All in all we've throughly enjoyed ourselves. Restrictions on our accomodation meant we were fishing at the least productive times of the day but we still all caught Barbel every day we fished. Many thanks to the Wye & Usk Foundation and particularly Don who was his usual helpful and accomodating self, a true gent!

Ken decided to fish Wyebank all day today but it fished hard with him managing 1 Barbel and 2 Chub to 4lbs 8ozs. Many thanks to Don for all his help this week. We'll be back.

5 barbel and 4 good chub. Almost a different river from conditions 5 days earlier. Level dropped and more swims fishable, and the pace over the fast sections reduced. I made a point of keeping away from these snaggy areas. Two of the barbel had bad tears caused by hooks. Farmer just cut barley, so made the long walk down easier.

On initial arrival I was rather dissapointed with the accesability of the swims and to be honest, if it were at all muddy or the river were up I would not have risked the clamber down to them. Far too dangerous but luckily it was a sunny, dry day and of the 5 swims available my brother fished one that was at the river level and I chose one which needed the full length of my telescopic landing net handle to reach the water. Had a great day 4 Barbel, largest of which was pushing double figures and at least 8 chub, the largest was a stonker pushing the 5lb mark, the rest were around 3lbs with a couple of 1.5lbs. My brother had 2 Barbel around the 4lbs mark and numerous chub between half a pound to one and a half pounds. Be warned, swims not for the feint hearted.

3 Dace caught on sweetcorn.

This was our 2nd visit to the White House beat. The first time was some 2 years ago and it rained all day, however this time it could not have been more different. On a perfect fining down river nearly back to summer level, on what was a very hot day, four anglers shared 10 barbel up to around 8lbs each, severn fish to one rod, with a two fish tally for the second angler and just a single fish for the third. A much improved beat with plenty of accessible swims to go at, very pleased to meet the gentleman land owner, who made us very welcome and was very informative.

Slow to start with only chub showing an interest in the morning. Barbel started to appear in the afternoon. Finished on six barbel to 8lb 10oz, plus four chub to 4lbs.