Feedback & Reports

As I am the world's biggest sissy when it comes to being in the same field as anything bigger than a sheep, it was with some trepidation that I booked a day on Sugwas. Naturally, the first animal I saw on arrival at the orchard was the bull, who lived up to all previous reports. A chat with John, the keeper, "assured" me that the cattle would be no problem, so I spent the first few hours trying the obvious bankside swim and the gravel island in front of the cattle drink. Caught 2 chub and hooked 2 barbel, only to have the line cut on a rock or some other snag.
Other anglers fishing below me from the opposite bank were catching regularly - so there's a damn good swim begging to be opened up under the bank in the orchard woods.
Moved down to investigate the lower section. More cows, but no bull this time. (John told me he [the bull, not John], had made it across the river, broken down a fence, and was currently engaged in pestering the neighbouring farmer's milking herd - so I'm glad I didn't meet him!) Some lovely looking water here. Spotted a number of barbel holding in the current and occasionally flashing, so tried a swim upstream from them. 4 barbel came to the net in the next 50 minutes until they had enough and the swim died. Biggest perhaps 7lb and smallest a little gem of perhaps 1lb!
Had a few casts in a couple more swims with a decent chub as result. As the evening wore on I had a couple more supercharged chub which convinced me they were barbel, and lost what would have been the biggest barbel of the day when it pretended to be a chub and snagged me in sunken branches.
This stretch has some very nice looking swims, all of which I expect will fish well on their day.
And of course, the cattle just ignored me.

2 rods fished for 3 hours on the lower part fo the fishery. Feedered hemp and pellet on the hook produced 8 barbel to just over 9lbs. Although the water's a bit slower here the fish are there and with a bit of patience it's as comfortable and rewarding as barbel fishing gets.

Fished in the usual place but had no joy so I tried several other swims before finding some fish. Had 3 chub and 3 barbel in a couple of hours before I had to leave. All fish caught on swimfeedered pellets. Didn't see the two chaps fishing opposite down below Luggsmouth catch anything.
Quite a few canoes some came up river never seen that before, sooner them than me, all well behaved though.

It was always likely to be hard work today. River low and clear, weather cool and sunny, and drifting weed a bit of a problem. One barbel of around 7lb in the morning from halfway down Legg Meadow on a small pellet. Only an eel and a lost fish (probably a good chub) from further up in the evening. Enjoyable nevertheless. Will be back when we get some worthwhile rain.

Fished from 2pm until dusk. River level as expected - very low with a bright sun & hot conditions. We both fished the pellet, JB managed 4 chub and 2 barbel while I managed 2 barbel and 5 chub. All canoeists were very good.

Thank you all at the Wye & Usk for your booking services & for the great stretches & scenery of the Wye on which we fish.

Tried hard to get there in good time but got stuck in traffic everywhere!! Fished from 5pm till 8-30 and had 4 nice barbel from slower deeper section in first meadow.

Only 3 fish from 2 rods, a nice small chub & 2 juvenile chub. The conditions seemed perfect and we caught the first fish within an hour using a feeder & sweetcorn on the hook. It is an attractive piece of river & I'm sure has good fish in it. Wished we brought waders as the majority of the swim is inaccessible. Weeds are also a problem so take ledgers & feeders that are less likely to snag. We will be back, but with different tackle.

Bit of a struggle to begin with. Hooked and landed a barbel within half hour of arriving then the swim went dead. I gave it another couple of hours but could not tempt any more fish so I moved up towards the shallower water. Found a likely looking spot, but only managed to tempt 4 chub. Very interesting wading around in the water, baited up a shallow clear spot and found a barbel feeding there an hour later, left it to it. Moved back down river and there was some fish in the first swim finished with 6 chub and 8 barbel.
I should perhaps mention that the swim I fished looked like somebody else had fished it recently but I don't think this stretch has had many bookings lately, poachers perhaps?

The last day of our 3 days on the wye, Caradoc is a beautiful part of the river with wonderful wildlife,and when we were not watching various hawks, kingfishers, and finches we found time to TRY and catch a barbel.
As we have fished the beat before we thought we knew where and how to catch them, but as with the 2 previous days locating the fish was the hard part. We started on the gravel beach at the bottom of the beat and only managed one chub,we then spent the rest of the day fishing every peg until we found some feeding fish in the middle of the beat, and we each had 4 good barbel all between 7&8lb and 9 Chub to 4lb.The river is very low and clear and every one we spoke to said the river is fishing hard, BUT in our 3 days fishing, by traveling light and roving about we have caught 61 barbel and 27 chub between 2 of us. What a great holiday and MANY thanks to W.U.F for a wonderful service

2 rods fished for 7 barbel and 16 chub caught on a variety of meat and pellet baits