Feedback & Reports

The river level was up with water flowing over the croy on arrival, levels dropped during the session and the croy was dry by mid-afternoon. Water was very coloured and pushing through as you’d imagine. All fish were caught on a mixture of boilies and meat, the “other fish” was an eel. Largest barbel was 7lb 9oz and chub to 4lb 8oz. Another very enjoyable day on the Wye in a lovely quiet tranquil setting.

4 Barbel, 11 Chub, 1 Other

Great day's fishing. Bites from 10am to 10pm. Fished the bottom pool on the edge of the slack. Pellets and feeder got bites straight away. Switched to float fished meat in the afternoon and caught 1 barbel and 1 chub but also lost 4 barbel to hook pulls.
Lost 7 in total so should have been a much better day!

5 Barbel, 5 Chub

warm mostly overcast day, river coloured, 2 foot up from the weekend and 16 degrees. Lovely barbel conditions but this is the best chub stretch on the list and not many barbel have come out this season as testified by our chat with Colin the bailiff.
The chub swims down the bottom were a little too pacey to fish the float effectively (for me at any rate) so a few on the feeder down there before moving back up, so we ended up catching throughout the length of the beat. GB feeder and boillies or small combination baits best. All chub between 2 and 3, the 3 barbel (one each) were 1, 3 and 5. So a lovely day but not the best beat we could have fished under the conditions - we fished the swims recommended by Colin for the barbel but again only Chub.

3 Barbel, 36 Chub

8 Chub

Very different conditions to the previous day. We started later in the day and the fishing was slightly slower. I focussed on trying to catch a barbel on the float which was challenging with the amount of water still pushing through but I managed it in the end.

12 Barbel, 15 Chub

River level up and rising due to heavy rain over the weekend also well coloured. All fish caught on a feeder rig all fish in a good condition.

1 Barbel, 9 Chub

Swim feeder with garlic and chilli soaked luncheon meat on hair. First cast of the day too! And then ….
…. SFA!

1 Chub

Only one fishing, river was up a bit and coloured so conditions not very good four good chub caught and one eel caught, will be back!

4 Chub, 1 Other

Lovely condition chub, caught in beats 3, 5 and 6, all on the left bank. Bites dried up as the sun came out and the temperature rose. Fishing a cage feeder.

3 Chub

Harder work than usual on a coloured river that came up three feet the previous day. Barbel were especially hard to find, but they fed well in one spot for a short period in the afternoon. Island swims all inaccessible and/or unfishable due to the extra water.

8 Barbel, 40 Chub