Feedback & Reports

Weather very mild, river down to 0.75, good flow, a slight tinge of colour still in the water, hopes high for mid November.
First time on this lovely beat set below an idyllic village sandwiched in a big Wye ox bow.
Started in front of the church which produced one 3lb chub and a 2 lb barbel in the first 2 hours. I moved down to the 3rd meadow first and had 3 nice chub and a beautiful 9.04 barbel all on meat. S.M. then followed and had 4 chub to 4Lb again on meat but no more barbel. Disappointed not to have a few late fish at dusk but all in all a great day despite locking my keys in my car at the end and having to wait nearly 2 hours for breakdown. Thank goodness my mate hadn't gone! Calamity Col

2 Barbel, 9 Chub

Lovely new beat with a lot of varied habitat. The oos trout was a surprise but looked in good condition.
River was a good height at 0.6 on the NRW Climery gauge. Didn't attempt to wade across to the opposite bank.

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

Nice autumnal day at Foy Bridge. No Barbel but had some nice big Chub

9 Chub

Cold weather but the river conditions looked good but had to search for the fish, feeder and pellet tactics

6 Barbel, 2 Chub

The river was still a bit high for the fly, with a foot of water over the planks throughout the beat. Even so, I was surprised to not have a single offer in four hours fishing, using a variety of conventionally presented,and high sticked nymphs. A leaf or two every other cast didn’t help but a very quiet day today.

No fish or even any bites.

Banks very steep and slippery, making it extremely difficult to cast. It felt dangerous accessing the water in any of the swims I fished. Even a long handled landing net was unable to satisfactorily reach the water safely, so we concluded that even if we were to catch, we'd be unable to safely land the fish.

Rather disappointed.



Finished early as unable to locate a comfortable swim.

4 chub up to about 4lb and a barbel about 6lb. Enjoyable day.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

Great days fishing at middle hill court. First of all I’d like to thank Stefan the bailiff for lots of great advice with swim choice. We managed 5 barbel to 7lb and 10 chub to 5lb 5oz all fish court on feeder & pellet fishing close in in a deep gulley. Swims were nice and easy to get down to. Stefan as done a amazing job with the swims. Will be back soon for sure

5 Barbel, 10 Chub

A very pleasant four hours on the Wye with the Ross gauge showing c.0.8m on a falling river, and with improving water clarity. I had only four distinct bites, with three barbel caught and another lost to a hook pull. Pellet and meat were both successful.

3 Barbel

A very difficult day on a cold and low (dropping) river. Thought we would struggle for a barbel but even the big chub had no interest in feeding today despite catching many here previously. Trotting produced plenty to about a pound with the largest one falling to leger tactics at dusk (about 3lb). That was the only one above a pound between 2 anglers.

20 Chub