Feedback & Reports

River low. Could not get action on pellets over several hours. Switched to meat and things improved greatly.
Chub all of a good standard but barbel refused to show.
That aside. A very good fishery and very peaceful.
Thank you.

11 Chub

River very low in places and limited bank access. would benefit from another 1 or 2 pegs to make it easier to get access to water. Agree with other comments to travel light as walk from car park is steep and could be slippery in wet weather. Barbel and chub showing in late afternoon/early evening. Double figure barbel and 2 pound chub. Both on pellet.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

3 Chub

Didn’t fish today, desperate times. We have a week every September on the Wye and we love every second of it catch or not but none of us could face going back to the river in its current state today

Started around 14:30, thankfully the extraction pump wasn’t in use. Although it was raining the river was low and slow so we kept to the deeper water just upstream from the parking area.

Safety note; the growth next to the concrete walkway was so overgrown that only half the width of the path was useable. This meant walking was dangerously close to the 6ft drop into the river.

Other than that, a great afternoon.

6 Barbel, 1 Chub

Fished at foy bridge for the first time today. Whilst the weather wasn’t great me and my father managed to have a good bit of sport resulting in 27 fish between us with barbel up to 7lb and a nice 5lb chub my dad had later on in the day. Also he managed to catch 2 eels

8 Barbel, 17 Chub, 2 Other

Late afternoon evening session Barbel 7lb chub from 3lb 8oz up to 4lb 6oz the other was a perch of 1lb 9oz feeder fished luncheon meat was the method.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub, 1 Other

Unfortunately with the low river levels finding accessible swims in large parts of the beat was difficult and with the persistent rain during the day the few access points became rather treacherous. I opted to don the waders and get with my quarry. I spent a few hours trotting meat and corn around the crib to no avail before moving to the faster water downstream of the suspension bridge. Feeding hemp and trotting corn soon resulted in some chub. After pre-baiting a fast run opposite the croy from the beach with hemp I switched to feeder and pellet in the afternoon. First cast resulted in a nice barbel and this was followed by 6 more to about 8lb and half a dozen chub. Bites were on a regular basis throughout the afternoon. Difficult conditions, rather wet but always a joy to be fishing the Wye.

7 Barbel, 8 Chub

Second day on beat, fished in the woods again and into the fast water and peg running out of the the fast water. Different day today regards weather torrential rain most of the day but did not stop the fishing. Chub bites straight away on pellet and meat, landed my first Wye barbel on the bomb and my second a little later on the drop again on meat. 15 chub myself on feeder or bomb meat, pellet and Bollie. My Dad continued on pellet feeder and pellet band 4 barbel and lost five in the rocks biggest 8.5lb with 10 chub different sizes. Amazing two day fishing ending a great week on the Wye, very special place and great to be back!

6 Barbel, 25 Chub

3 Barbel, 4 Chub