Feedback & Reports

River was an unattractive brown colour and quite a lot of weed beds now. Weather overcast and warm. Started with feeder and pellet but not a touch so changed to meat. This brought one barbel and (inevitably) a couple of eels. Moved to some faster water and had two more barbel and four smallish chub, again on meat. Barbel were all around the 6lbs mark. The winter floods of about three years ago destroyed access to many swims below the island and the bottom field is infested with campers, so there is now much less readily fishable water.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub, 2 Other

Really nice beat. Started on the fishing hut swim at 5am. Tried pellet/feeder and stick float. Had no bites by 11am so moved into the wooded area. Bit of a trek up the hill with all my tackle but well worth it. Was intending to try different swims out in that area but started catching regularly from first swim so stayed there. Fished the furthest swim into the woods (would be the first swim you come too if you could access it from the other side) which is just where it gets deep after all the fast water. Could have had a chub a cast but just didn’t strike on the smaller bites and tried to wait it out for barbel. Managed to get 4 barbel and lost a couple to hook pulls. The chub are a really nice size with most being over 4 pound. Caught a few of the chub on the drop as they grabbed the bait as soon as the feeder hid the water. A very lovely beat and will definitely be back. Would try and travel a bit lighter next time though so can five around. Plenty of great looking swims, bends and features to fish.

4 Barbel, 10 Chub

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

1 x 7oz Dace

6 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

arrived at around 645 and had a walk from the line of trees to the right hand boundary. settled in to a swim and caught a barbel within the first hour which was around 8lbs on pellet feeder.

no further bites here and found it a bit hit or miss with finding clear spots / weed - the water was a dark copper colour so visibility wasnt good for spotting fish / weed / river bed.

tried several swims along the beat and caught only chub thereafter. the bailiff visited and commented that sometimes the fish are there to be caught and sometimes they seem to dissappear. happy to catch one but gutted i didnt have a day with multiple fish

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Chub took over today. Hard to get any Barbel. They switched on later in the day. Can’t complain with 33 Chub over 3lb and one 5lber. Barbel bites were very finicky. Met Colin and had a good chat - he keeps the fishery brilliantly maintained - thx

4 Barbel, 33 Chub

Very slow day, river still an odd brown colour with visibility down to about a foot.
Only 2 barbel but both were 9lb + which was a bonus. Both from a lovely looking run right at the far end of the beat
Odd couple of walkers decided to sit right behind us then one of them went to go for a swim in our swim until he was advised that wasn't a good idea!
Loads of salmon seen all day and I think this stretch is paying salmon fishing prices for course fishing which I'm not sure is worth it in the end. Nice stretch though but at twice as much as other wye and Usk stretches probably won't revisit this one. Was great being able to drive the full length right on the river bank

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Second day on MHC and similar conditions. Managed to catch 3 barbel but just feel there's something not quite right at the moment. It was suggested that the algae may be having an affect on the lack of barbel being caught when compared with previous years.

3 Barbel, 8 Chub