Feedback & Reports

With a forecast of the first really calm day for weeks, I just had to give it a go today as Abernant can be very productive at this time of year, if the weather Gods favour you. I did a 9 to 5 shift, with the Wye valley misty at arrival and the air in single figures. Brrr! With a user-friendly 10” on the Llanstephan guage, the water was cold too at 10 degrees though, with the sun and heat of the day, the water was up to 14 degrees by 4 p.m. I had a couple of trout off the top in the mist by 9.30 but by midday had only had three trout and three grayling, fishing duo and taking fish on both a HE emerger and a flashback PTN. There were a few PWs and some midge around, but no risers, and I couldn’t tempt any other fish up with any other of my usual seasonal favourites. Nor was an hour’s bugging any more successful! The afternoon was a different story altogether with fish sipping in foam lanes until about 3.30 when the upwings began to fizzle out, though I still caught a few ladies until just before I left. For the whole afternoon I just fished a small size 18 pale hare’s fur Ducks Dun which will usually catch fish when PWs are around….and so it proved. The grayling were from 8 to 14” with the majority 11-13 inchers, doubtless grown-on members of the amazingly prolific 8-10 inch year class of a few years back. These ones survived! Interestingly, significant numbers were also carrying lots of Argulus parasites, a phenomenon which I don’t recall seeing before at this time of year on grayling. I caught only two more trout but, one sipping in the margins, was worth casting for as it proved to be a very disgruntled 19” fish of over 2.5lb which led me a merry dance for a while! Also, the great job on the strimming of the banks on the top half of the beat made for safe access – many thanks! This week looks pretty changeable but, needless to say, I’ll be watching September’s forecasts!!!!

5 Trout, 22 Grayling

All 6 salmon small fry, between 3-5 inches. Great days fishing.

4 Trout, 3 Grayling, 6 Other

Had a great day on this fantastic part of the river, warm, sunny weather meant that the fish did not properly feed until late afternoon but once they started the bites came regularly,most Barbel around 5-7 lbs,with a couple of better fish up to 8 lbs 8 oz,plenty of nice Chub around 4 lbs. A great day for watching wildlife with Kingfishers,Buzzards,Woodpeckers,Sparrow Hawk and a Red kite.

15 Barbel, 10 Chub

Very quiet, lots of weed coming through, fished the lower end of court field with halibut pellets over a hemp based ground bait no bites until 7pm after a change of bait to spicy sausage boilies resulted in a 7lb barbel at last light

1 Barbel

2 x anglers 4000 canoes absolute waste of time
2 x chub

2 Chub

Very quiet, lots of weed coming through, my first time fishing the lower end of the court field stretch using halibut pellet over a hemp based ground bait, no bites. After a change of bait to spicy sausage boilie resulted in a 7lb barbel at last light.

1 Barbel

did not fish due to unforeseen circumstances

Fishing slow due to the conditions but a lovely spot, will be back after some rain!!

This report and the one before it is for 2 anglers CT and AW.
Worst day of the season here at Wyebank - The canoe traffic was horrendous today - non stop and plenty of swimmers also. The canoe traffic did not calm down until well gone 16.00hrs
It was so bad today you could not keep a rod in the water properly for any length of time.

On top of the fished from 10.30 to 19.15 - CT had the only one barbel take all day and the fish bumped off in weed.
Blanked