Feedback & Reports

4 anglers for an evening, hot day new ti the location, found it difficult locating the water the google maps on the site wasn't working and the water was not well maintained it was difficult to know if this was a fishery or not.

Once we started fishing we managed 3 eels between us

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3 Other

Ver hot weather. Water low. 4 bites 4 fish 1 chub and 3 roach. Very long walk to access the beat. Also received email to cease fishing as water temp to high. And oxygen levels low.

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1 Chub, 3 Other

See redbank entry for access details. As usual exit onto the main road is highly dangerous so lucky there were 2 anglers so one could get out on the road to assist.
Once we got to the car park pete decided to fish the famous pool near the pylons at the downstream end - very comfortable fishing off the beach in the low water. He had 2 good chub early on pellet feeeder.
Charlie who likes a short walk positioned himself on the first croy d/s of the car park and fished the float with meat corn and bread to have a very enjoyable day for 10 chub to 4lb plus - the largest on flake.
Stopped fishing at 2 - a bit hot so missed barbel time later on.
Lovelty to see lots of strteramer weed especially at the upstream boundary. But wye and usk - the access track issue does need addressing.

12 Chub

another fiasco on beat 5 after parking where advised to unload our tackle and walk down a very steep hill, through a gate, across a field to find barely enough room to set up and fish the sweeping bend on Lockstep pool. After 20 mins a woman screamed at us to pack up and leave the field as there was no longer anywhere to park and abruptly asked us to remove our vehicles due to a wedding being set up for 250 guests. We left after 30 minutes getting burnt in the process as it was over 32degrees and I only got out of hospital the night before. Not much rest for me! We returned to beat 2 as the 2 anglers that were fishing the morning were leaving therefor we managed to get 21/2 hours fishing to end the day very upset. we would plan to return to this beat 2 next morning before we travelled home to London.

1 Chub, 3 Other

Total fiasco with parking arrangements to fish beat 5 Lockstep pool as previous angler has mentioned. Complete right off.

Early morning start was essential, and rewarded with a double figure Barbel on first cast. Closely followed by two Chub (6 and 4 lb). Pellet. As the sun came out, and temperatures rose, the action slowed considerably. Raps and taps occasionally through till 3pm, then things started up again. Day finished with 3 good Chub taken on trotted meat down towards Island end.
Family of otters (parent and two cubs) spotted early on. Magnificent. Did not seem to upset the fish.
Maybe the warm, sluggish water had an impact, but none of the fish, including the barbel, put up too much of a scrap. Lovely day. Thank you.

1 Barbel, 10 Chub

Much better day today, fish were more cooperative. 4 decent sized barbel and lovely to see a small barbel of about pound and a half. Most fish were caught using pellets also rolled meat worked as well. Fished the bottom end of the beat both days

5 Barbel, 1 Chub

very bright, very hot. all to the float on pellet.

35 Chub

First time on this beautiful beat. Boiling hot so was hard going but we found chub in the deeper water and some in the faster water. We will be back

15 Chub

only fished for a couple of hours late in the day as very hot

1 Chub