Feedback & Reports

A sunny afternoon with a strong upstream wind and the river still low and clear, though with a decent flow on this beat. I started to fish after the midday rain had passed. One barbel caught and one lost between 16.00 and 17.00. Nothing else, other than a few chub rattles around sunset.

1 Barbel

10 Chub

Booked this a while back and was hoping for a river about 1m however it had dropped to 0.22 after the rise at the weekend and was clear. Fished fields 1 two and three (didn't try field four) in both faster and slower water with only two of the fish coming from the faster water. Biggest barbel was 6lb (fast water) and two were babbies. Top swim was most productive using a hemp feeder and feeding pellets by catty over the top with pellet or meat on the hook. Bites were not rippers and were difficult to spot in a heavy gusting wind particularly in the swims in the third field without upwind tree cover. One blank among the four of us so not a complete day but a day on the Wye.......

5 Barbel, 12 Chub

4 Trout

18 Chub

Shocking weather with pouring weather all day and river rose by 3' during the day. Managed one small barbel and 3 good sized chub before the river levels forced us off the bank.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

3 Barbel, 24 Chub

3 Barbel, 7 Chub

2 Grayling

Had a short afternoon session due to really heavy rain through the morning, but still had a couple of fish, a chub from the top swim, and a nice Barbel from the concrete strip by the car park.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub