Feedback & Reports

I had a fantastic day’s fishing. Warm, but overcast most of the day, low water levels. Not much luck on the feeder, so, on the kind advice of another angler, I moved to trotting pellets. This resulted in 4 barbel within the space of two hours. Experimented with other methods with limited success.

4 Barbel, 4 Chub

Nothing caught. River low with no flow and and it was extremely hot and bright. The style providing access to the stretch does need a repair. The top board is loose and could result in an accident.

It is a stunning stretch on the Wye, the scenery is well worth the steep walk

5 Barbel, 3 Chub

Great days fishing - 9 chub to 4.5lb and finally got a barbel 5.5lb. Also had an eel. Most were on meat or pellet.

1 Barbel, 9 Chub, 1 Other

Water very low managed 1 chub just shy of 5lb loads of small chub and lots of Dace the dace were all realy decent size fish whilst the barbel didn’t want to show there face due to being so hot it was nice to get down the wye again. swims still very over grown but we managed ok. back again for some more very soon

8 Chub, 20 Other

Great day on the float. Fish from 12oz to around 8lb. Most of the barbel around the 3 to 4lb mark.
Other fish were 4oz dace.

11 Barbel, 11 Chub, 2 Other

Other a dace, nice to see the streamer weed returning.

17 Barbel, 7 Chub, 1 Other

Other fish were eels

1 Barbel, 3 Chub, 2 Other

This was my first visit to Thomas Wood. Its a beautiful beat with a mix of fast runs and deeper slower sections. As always with the Wye, the wildlife is abundant. Access down to the river is excellent allowing you to park at one of 2 parking areas very near to the river. Fished from 3pm. Slow afternoon with only a few annoying bites from small Chub. Tried a variety of baits and methods in 3 different swims. Finally a proper bite at dusk resulting in a hard fighting Wye barbel of 6.25lb's caught at the lower end of the wood. The bait was a 12mm pellet.

1 Barbel

SM had 48 chub and 1 Barbel using feeder tactics with red pellet best bait. SG had 37chub using float/ feeder combo with pellets. MH had 12 chub and 3 barbel to 5lb wandering top and bottom fields.
Weather hot and river low.

4 Barbel, 97 Chub