Feedback & Reports

With a peak at over 2m yesterday and at the gauge at over 1.4 this this AM, the Wye here was a different river to the summer with the fastest water being unapproachable but easy wading over the middle of the beat where previously it was dry. Water was very coloured with 6" visibility. 4 Grayling didn't fully commit and one at about 15" to the net, quickly returned. (Crystal Prince interpretation). Lovely day.

1 Grayling

River rising I struggled but mate mate done very well we now call him Bob nudd

5 Barbel, 1 Chub

Cheech caught two barbel and one Chub, Chong blanked.
River rising with lots of weed and debris racing through. Still a cracking day.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Did not fish

Challenging conditions as the river rose dramatically and was running through fast with high amounts of debris - fished in the slacks - Chub were decent stamp - 2 - 4lb / Barbel 7.5lb

1 Barbel, 9 Chub

No joy on this occasion. Strong winds and intermittent horizontal rain and lake surface very choppy throughout. Thought it was not going to be my day when 4 wild swimmers turned up, swam the length of the lake, talking very loudly for over an hour - it seems to be a regular weekly trip for them. Not that I am using that as an excuse for no bites and no fish!

5 Barbel, 1 Chub

River came up 1.5m over night. Managed a few hours before giving up. Too much debris and cold water overnight resulted in a blank for both.
Nice stretch, will be back when river is not so angry.

Well what a difference a day makes. Lovely chat between the four angling parties in our hotel fishing a variety of WUF stretches. I didn't think much rain fell yesterday at all but it presumably had up in the hills as one eagle eyed chap checking the levels alerted us to a massive spike upstream at Mordiford coming our way. 0.27 at breakfast turned into 0.44 by the time we got to river. Whole trees started coming down river and it rose to 1.5m by the time we left. So much weed and leaves coming through meant frequent de-weeding and short casts but in between, barbel fed in three of our swims. Bites again were slight, double taps instead of the single ones from leaves or slightly longer lifts than it just being moved by the weed. These may have turned into big pulls but striking 'in case' produced well hooked fish. 6 (top end), 4 and 3 barbel (bottom end) with one chub to the other angler so again not a complete day but for 3 of the 4 a great return in challenging conditions. Biggest barbel 8.06. Thanks to Stefan for convincing PJ to stay where he was as he had 3 barbel in the afternoon.
River now at .91 so the guys fishing today from our hotel should have it sock on!

13 Barbel, 1 Chub

River fast and coloured although started to drop in the afternoon. We fished hard in difficult circumstances without much reward, lost a Barbel late on when conditions improved.

1 Chub