Feedback & Reports

Arrived for an afternoon session to find that I had the beat to myself which was a bonus. I started off at the top of the field below the woods and made my way back to the woods fishing multiple swims in the hope of a barbel.

The stretch was alive with chub, all swims produced and considering I was only fishing for 6 hours it was a bite a cast up until 8pm when the river just switched off.

Considering I'm pretty fit the walk was interesting even though I scaled right down, a ski lift needs to be considered for the way back up the hill :)

1 Barbel, 73 Chub

Considering the lack of rain the river had good pace and looked pretty good. Overcast conditions all day. Barbel up to 9lb 6oz caught mainly on the evening with some chub up to around 2lb 8oz. Pellets and feeder with loose feeding hemp did the trick. Overall a nice day out on another beautiful section of the Wye.

4 Barbel, 6 Chub, 5 Other

We were looking forward to our first session of the new season for some time and our expectation were high, we arrived very early on a cool overcast day, the river was slightly colored but very low and in much need of some rain, that said we settled in to our first choice of swims at the top limit of the beat, but despite changing swims several times working our way down the beat we could not locate those elusive Barbel.
Tried the usual baits i.e Bread, pellets, Corn, meat and boilies and different method but to no avail only two pesky eels caught this time.
Plenty of wildlife, Kestrels, Buzzards, Herons, kingfishers, the usual swan encounter and a family of small family of ducks the likes i've not seen before, tame and very inquisitive all the same.
Swim access was easy and plentiful, unfortunately the day was somewhat spoilt by the heavy boat traffic that was expected from previous weekend visits to the Wye, most were very courteous and made plenty of room when they could but always spoiled by the odd nutty wanting to draw attention to themselves thinking they owned the river and just intent on spoiling your day!
Thank you WUF for a great day, great surroundings, and we will be back soon.

2 Other

3 Trout, 3 Grayling

River low, but this beat usually holds a few fish in the faster water post spawning .. two fished - Friday and Saturday. Caught better in the overcast conditions on Friday. Ten Barbel to just under 8lb and twenty five decent Chub to 4lb 11. All on sweetcorn fishing all the swims at the bottom end. Not as many hand sized Chub/Dace as in previous years but the margins are alive with fry. Nice to see the mink hounds come through on Saturday

10 Barbel, 25 Chub

Nice day on the top end of the beat.
fish caught on float and feeder

1 Barbel, 25 Chub

3 Trout

Perch

1 Trout, 4 Other

Didn't catch no fish but really enjoyed it

All fish caught on float and feeder tactics

1 Barbel, 12 Chub, 8 Other