Feedback & Reports

Lovely rural beat. Access is good (circa 400m downhill through woods) to the beat. That takes you to the downstream end of the and it is a long haul with equipment to the faster flowing upstream end. Took an early 7lb barbel of the croy and then 3 others up to 7 1/2 lbs from the upstream pegs. River access has been kept maintained (thank you) but would benefit from some posts and knotted ropes at some pegs to help get back up the steep banks in wet conditions.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

An eelly not bad day ("others " were 9 eels). Chub ranged from about 3lb to a 4.12 PB for me. Last cast of day produced a very welcome barbel of 5.12 to DW. Not a monster but a lovely, pristine fish. Other river users, although still numerous, seemed on the whole to be a lot more polite and adept compared to the previous day. Really enjoyed the occasional lull and after 4pm when they'd all finished. Was able to enjoy the Wye in all her majestic beauty in those times of peace. On the wildlife front, a peregrine, family of mandarin ducks and 3 or 4 salmon jumping, 1 of which looked all of 20 pounds.

1 Barbel, 5 Chub, 9 Other

Nothing caught

River low and slightly coloured, with fish difficult to find in the usual spots. Torrential rain for much of the day made fishing tricky, but hard work and a lot of moving around eventually paid off. Great caution required on the path down to the bottom swims, which has been almost completely washed away by the winter floods - parts of it are extremely treacherous, so be careful!

7 Barbel, 19 Chub

First visit to this beat on the Wye, lovely water but very overgrown banks and access points, late start at 9am on beat 1 downstream from toll bridge, first cast with pellet feeder and boilie produced a small chub of around 2lbs, all set for a good day and then the canoes started!!
Impossible to keep a line in the water as the tally was 50 canoes/rafts from 9:30am to 12pm when the heavens opened and I gave up! Did try rolling meat under the far bank but due to the traffic only had a bait in the water for a few minutes at a time....understand that canoes have a right of access but the general behaviour was appalling, have fished other Wye beats and in general canoeists have been respectful and have tried to cause minimal disturbance, when I tried to ask (politely!) that passing traffic keep to the middle of the swim was offered various replies ranging from the "middle finger," banging the side of the canoe with their paddles as they passed through the swim to offering to land so we can "sort this out properly"!
One party of 4 teenagers actually decided to beach their canoe right next to me so they could go for a swim even though to my right was a stretch of shingle beach which stretched for several hundred meters, even had to help rescue one child when they capsized in front of me (not wearing a life jacket). No respect and no consideration at all, I understand that we have to share the river and Sunday was always going to be busy but will not be returning, shame as Terry was very helpful when we spoke and the stretch is lovely.

1 Chub

Got caught in the rain storms. Fished for half a day before we were effectively washed out as the conditions became very slippy. 3 falls were enough for us to call it a day! Did winkle out a nice barbel before the rains. Caught on lead and pellet bag method.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

23 Chub

A great days fishing in the pouring rain.
Fish caught in various swims throughout the length of the beat. All fish caught on pellet and swim feeder method.
Stunning fishery but you probably need a 4x4 to get down the track to the fishing hut.

2 Barbel, 9 Chub

2 Chub

Hard day, no barbel

10 Chub