Feedback & Reports

First time on the lower wye, 2nd time on the wye. I think the river might have been a bit low. Fished from 5am to 8pm. Contrary to common opinions about early mornings and evenings, all the barbel were caught between 11.20am and 1.40pm, which is also when the canoe traffic had built up. Between 2pm and 4pm the canoes just got too heavy to make fishing practical so i gave up and watched the chaos. Had to get in and help a capsizee at one point. The last fish was a chub at 7.15pm. No further bites. Lovely spot to fish. I think it might have been better with a bit more water and less canoes ie not during school holidays. Mind you, the fish don't seem to be too bothered by them. The barbel weren't huge, ranging from 3 to 7 pounds. I would definitely return to this swim. I thought it was well worth the money to have 300 yards of the river to myself.
The the only bites i got were about 2 thirds of the way out, just on the closest edge of the fast current. Didn't have any bites from within the pool itself. I only fished the bottom pool.

5 Barbel, 1 Chub

4 Chub

3 lb seatrout caught on teal and silver size 10 fly,from the baskets pool

1 Sea Trout

Wasted £37 not a bite didn't even see a fish rising the reservoir was dead

Another notch on the learning curve here today. Still haven't cracked it though but a fabulous place to be trying to! Interesting today as with it so low and clear, one could see the river bed quite well mostly, where it looks before to have been fathoms deep and dark . Not quite so deep after all in places and lots of good feature and gravels.
Very little fly about which figures with the time of season etc.

Got sucked in and spent a bit too much time trying to outwit some grayling at Penlanole and in my defence some of these fish looked to be clonkers . Some gave me my chance but fluffed 'em all in the excitement ! So just the one brown out of the pacy water it was later on but a good size and good conditioned fish and a proper hard case that really didnt want to see the net. Looking forward to adding the next notch...and latching in to one of those Penlanole submarines...well, hopefully.

Oh and for any campers out there , I was stopping at the Doliago farm site 5 mins up the road. A super little site it is .

1 Trout

3 anglers fished

17 Chub

No fish landed.

All fish caught on either a black pennel or a princes nymph. All fish under a pound. Lots of takes and one good sized fish.

8 Trout, 2 Grayling

4 Chub