Feedback & Reports

A lovely day on a favourite stretch of water. I started with a french nymph rig and due to a breeze blowing directly upstream I switched to an up and across team of spiders with one of my own creations on the point. I fished the pocket water above the 'falls' at the head of Lady Alexanders run and took four fish immediately. I fished the same method all along that run from top to bottom and had a series of snatches but no fish. I switched to the french nymph again to take two fish in the same run. It was difficult to locate exactly where the fish were feeding in the water column but why spoil a day by getting technical! Fab day as usual thankyou W&U.

5 Trout, 2 Grayling

What a beautiful beat. Fished beat 5 on the float lots of dace and 6 good chub on the float. Low and clear barbel didn’t show

6 Chub

Only catch for me was sunburn. Foul-hooked a small fish (approx 2.5" long) but not sure what it was. Lovely views, mind you!
Bread and corn seemed to be effective but still only resulted in interest from tiddlers.

Barbel 7lb 6oz, 4 chub up to 4lb 8oz all on boilies. River still coloured, sunny and warm. Lost a powerful fish at 9pm, it felt like a good Barbel (carp??), took off like an angry Carp!
Fishing Passport Note: Large carp are quite often seen at the lower limit of How Caple Court.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

Posting results for a friend, unfortunately only caught a small Dace on meat, no other bites although fishing the peg I fished the previous day and using the same bait and tactics. That's fishing for you!

1 Other

Small, feisty fish. Very challenging fishing! Next time I will try using my tenkara outfit for these easily-spooked, fast-as -lightning takers!

6 Trout

Fished a couple of hours in the morning for 1 Barbel weighing 9lb 1oz then went back out at 4pm had 5 Barbel to 8lb and 2 Chub to 4lb

6 Barbel, 2 Chub

A bit slow during the day apart from a cracking 5lb chub from the field below the wood. Things woke up in the last hour in the top field. Other was an eel.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub, 1 Other

I was shocked by the state of the river. It has deteriorated drastically since I last saw it 4 years ago. The bed is now covered with slime and filamentous algae. The back eddies stink of dairy slurry. This is a dying river. We should all support the Wye and Usk Foundation as it seeks to protect our beautiful rivers from diffuse and acute pollution.
A few splashy rises to a size 16 soft hackle, but with one exception they were reluctant to connect.

1 Trout