Feedback & Reports

7 Chub

Went to the bend to see if I could find a barbel, gave it a couple of hours with the greedy chub then went halfway back to try some other swims.
My friend stayed up the upper end and float fished, he didn’t want to lose a load of leads like he did at Dean and Chapter last year!

15 Chub, 1 Other

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

Back on my favourite beat and had another great day. Despite some rain, the river is still low but at least it’s cooled off a tad.

I started very early and as I was setting up on the Lucky Stones I was greeted by a stunning rainbow. It was the clearest I’ve ever seen and prompted an impromptu burst of Judy Garlands “Somewhere over the rainbow…” which, annoyingly, then led to an earworm that lasted pretty much all day. (Apologies if you’ve now got it).

Unfortunately, there was only a pot of chub at the end of my rainbow, amounting to 40 plus through the day in many different sizes, shapes and ugliness on various methods (rolling meat, feeder with meat / pellets). The chub monotony was broken in the morning by 1 beautiful bronze barbel, an eel and a gudgeon – a rare catch for me on the Wye and reminded me of many happy days of my childhood spent on the banks of the Black Country canals before they got filled with abandoned shopping trollies, Ford Anglias and dead bodies.

The middle part of the day was very quiet bite wise, so I took a break and enjoyed the entertainment provided by the armada of canoeists who had evidently been sent downstream with the brief on how not to drown but still be an ace buffoon at the same time. They were all very friendly and apologised for any disruption caused, none more so than the grannie and grandad with two grandkids who somehow managed to do a handbrake turn mid river and smash directly into the boulders on the opposite bank, causing all four occupants to violently jerk forwards as the boat hit the rocks. If it had a been a Mini Metro there’d be a whiplash claim.

Headed back around 8.30 before the bats came out to play.

Stunning beat, total tranquility and loads of fish – what more could you want?

1 Barbel, 40 Chub, 2 Other

Overall a very nice day on the bank, other than a couple of short sharp showers weather was warm if not a little breezy. Water levels very low and action slow over the day. Picked up a few early chub on cage feeder and then went for a wade to the island. Nothing doing from either end so returned to the Step and quickly was in to a lovely barbal, made my day as was first Wye barbal for me. Love the spot!

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

river very low and clear and lots of canoes. 25 (approx) chub to 4lb. 1 barbel 5lb. On sweetcorn but mainly meat.

1 Barbel, 25 Chub

Llyn at least 1m below spillway, with large areas of lake bed exposed. Saw a couple of carp jump but none caught. SUP and inflatables arrived mid-afternoon.

No fish caught not surprising really. Constant canoeists beaching on the exposed gravel in front of me, then a group of teenagers decided to jump in and go swimming then throwing stones into the river not Happy.