Feedback & Reports

Nice bit of colour to the river. Fished from 9.30 until we had to leave at 3pm. I had 2 barbel and a chub within 3/4 hour, thinking it was looking good it promptly went dead!
I moved up towards the shallower water and had a couple of chub then moved back to the deeper water. I finished with 5 chub 2 barbel, other rod blanked.
What a killer the hill back away from the river is if you try and go back to the car fully loaded.

Stunning location, stunning fishing. 15 barbel and 7 chub, including 3 x 8lbers to the birthday boy! Being able to have the beat all to yourself is perfect. Thanks to the riparian owner and WUF.

Firstly, I would like to thank both the bailiff Rudi, and the land owner Don, for the friendly welcome to the beat, it was appreciated, and also the fact that they both acknowledged me by name rather than just another day ticket holder.
The day started on arrival at 10am, a walk of the beat and baiting of selected swims with hemp and pellet was carried out. First fish of the day was a Barbel of 6 lbs 10 ozs just after casting. The day progressed slowly with two eels from two other baited swims. At 5pm I revisited the first swim, and on advice from Rudi, I tried luncheon meat again (after being pestered with eels on this bait). The result was more Barbel ( 6-4, 6-7, 6-2, 9-6, 5-11, 5-9, 7-3 & 6-13) and 3 Chub (3+, 4-8 & 5-9 )

River conditions were coloured water, and rising slowly during the day.

Fished 16.00 to 19.45. River falling, perhaps 1ft extra of clearing but not to cold water, overcast with light showers and rising evening air temperature. Perfect.
Light ledger (that could be lifted and let flow over weed and bounce in arc from far bank to nearbank) to 8 hook and 1inch cubes of curried luncheon meat. 4ft hook length, no ground bait.
Mid point of Leggs Meadow.
Luncheon meat floats up above the weed so is more visible in silty water
6 Barbel 7lb-ish to a weighed 9lb 12oz then later the Chub went crazy, I spent more time returning fish than angling! Chub every other cast, they were hitting the bait thro its arc but I could only hook regular just as bait stopped moving.
Most were between 2 and 3 pounds but a dozen or so were larger, weighed 2 I thought might go 6lb but they were 5lb 4oz and 5lb 12oz and fought like barbel staying deep to the net. Lucky I'd brought extra meat bait to use up!
In all total bag probably close to 100lbs in just under 4hrs. Actually arrived home on time for dinner!, did not need that "last extra cast".
The weather was unusual, much surface fish and small salmon activity in lower part of meadow, co-incides with DM's multi salmon catch in Wyebank just downstream earlier in day. Such a fickle river the Wye but my best evening session ever by far. (See also C's of Witney report same evening).
Interesting to see if Sat/Sun reports good or as typical of Wye a good day followed by a poor day?

Arrived at 9am river up 2-3 foot & coloured which was a welcome sight. Had a wander around & finally decided to fish at bottom of beat. Fished for a couple of hours without a bite due to flow & the amount of weed coming down, I was re casting every few minutes. Eventually gave up & decided to move further upstream, finally settling in just below Old Boat Pool.
1st cast produced fish within 5 minutes & the action then continued all day till I packed up at 5pm.
11 barbel to 9lb 40z plus 1 chub, I also lost 2 fish in the weed, both felt decent. All fish caught on pellet, not really bothered too much by chub, weed was a slight problem though.
River was dropping off through the day & losing some colour.
A few canoes came down, all extremely courteous.
To finish, what can I say, a marvellous day on a beautiful river, salmon crashing around me all day, outstanding scenery, peace & quiet, perfect!
Many thanks Wye & Usk & last but not least heartfelt thanks to Colin for his invaluable advice & local knowledge.

Arrived to a very warm overcast day, directions spot on, loved the kamakazee pheasants down the lane enroute to the river. Nice cut out swims on really nice stretch of river. Ended the day with 10 barbel and 3 lost, 7.5lb to 8.5lb and 3 chub to 2.5lb all on pellet. If it wasn't for the weed coming down and bending the rod double every 2 minuntes I'm sure we could have doubled our catch quite easily.

Apart from that we had a brilliant days fishing on a lovely stretch of river and the fish were stunning, worth the drive a hundred times over. Also, a big thanks to local lad Joe for some good tips. Can't wait to return.

First time on this stretch and thoroughly enjoyable it was too. Level dropping after previous day's flush, colour still reminiscent of wife's gravy and a bit of weed coming through. Found a fish or two here and there and, sticking to the near bank, finished with 4 barbel landed, a chunky one lost, one chub and a gudgeon.

Like the cut-out swims and steps - very posh! Bailiff visited and offered useful (but unproductive on the day) advice.

A small criticism but no mention in the instructions of the vast numbers of kamikaze pheasants playing chicken (or whatever they call it) in the lane. Reminded me of Pamplona where my car is the bull.

Saw a huge bird of prey high in a tree above me. Just looked black in silouhette but bloke opposite with a better angle and binoculars reckoned it was an osprey.

River rose 3 foot in the afternoon - hopes were high until I discovered how much weed was being transported at all depths through the water column. Managed a barbel and chub but the weed was too much of a menace to keep me there long. Shame - barbel were doing their "feeding porpoise" all over the pool and I'm sure I'd have had one a chuck without the vast amounts of weed. Should fish well over the next few days.

2nd day on the beat, the water had come up about 3 feet and racing through, also a lot of weed which has been a problem the last few days, rain and very windy made a difficult days fishing and we gave up early with 2 barbel and 3 chub.

Our visit coincided with the first major influx of water for a while which brought the level up my over 1.3m. This in itself was not a problem but the amount of weed and debris coming down was. It made fishing very difficult but we persevered and by fishing just of the rod tip managed a number of nice barbel from the obvious swims.