Feedback & Reports

2 x sewin, 2.5 and 3 pounds, Secret Weapon and Surface Lure. Started just after 10. Almost no fish showing, although it seemed very nearly a perfect night, warm, windless and quite dark, with a gibbous moon occasionally occasionally peeping through stacks of cloud. Very beautiful in fact. Finished just after 1 o'clock with hot coffee at the car before driving home. Our friend Miles, bless him, motor-cycled down from Bristol for just three hours fishing the Towy. If you see a BMW twin streaking along the M4 with rods and a Gye net strapped on the pillion, that will be Miles.

2 Sea Trout

No fish Very disappointing but probably too bright

Nice fishing, nice weather, biggest fish 8.6lb barbel.

4 Barbel, 4 Chub

Arrived around 5:30am to a beautiful Wye misty morning. Had decided to fish the croy at the far end of the beat first then work my way back during the day. Walked down the "mountain" to the River and all the way to the croy swim then discovered I'd left my bait in the car so had the pleasure of doing it all again! 3 chub in the morning before 10:00am. Two on the stick and pin and one on feeder/pellet. Nothing from the next two swims and I was back in the first field by 3pm. Afternoon was incredibly hot and not surprisingly uneventful. Fish started feeding around 7pm and a further 8 chub (and a very greedy Gudgeon!!!) followed to straight lead and loose fed pellet at about half way across. Another great day on the river although the lack of Barbel was a disappointment.
Canoe traffic was reasonably bearable but three Canoes strapped together with an outboard motor on the back was taking the "proverbial" and tested my patience to the extreme!!!

11 Chub, 1 Other

Groundbait feeder. Pellets, meat, worms, boilies... Difficult fishing but still put a bend in the rods.

7 Barbel, 4 Chub

Great days fishing, all Chubb on meat and feeder, fantastic balliff very very helpful, beautiful spot with easy access, very well kept part of the Wye again a credit to balliff, will be back

10 Chub

D Fs first ever fishing trip started slow with the fish not showing any interest in any of the normal swims. I started to fear that D F s first ever trip was going to end with a blank, however around four, the fish turned on for a brief feed and D managed to catch his first ever barbel and chub. The best barbel was around 8 lb so a good fish for first outing. Wild life was great and the day very enjoyable, regardless of the less than perfect fishing conditions. I'm back next week to have a go myself rather than play gillie for the day. Crossed fingers.

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

FISHING: A very hot bright day, 4 chub before midday then remainder of fish after 18:30hrs. All fish to meat or pellet, 3 of the Chub were Chublets, best Chub 5lb. best
Barbel 7lb 2oz. all fish in fine fettle, a joy to catch.
CANOES: There appears to be only two types of canoeist, polite and respectful of the river and fellow users or complete morons. We experienced a large group of "Visitors", who despite having the whole river to choose from decided to practice their capsizing drills IN our swim and took exception when challenged, unbelievable!!! Later in the early evening a couple of canoes lashed together being propelled by a very noisey motor belching out fumes and one of the occupants using the plastic personal effects containers as drums. Couldn't the hire companies be asked to issue some kind of instruction or behaviour code? Also, having travelled a considerable distance and paid handsomely for the privilege to fish here it was some what disappointing to witness a young man roll up early evening with a tub of maggots and proceed to fish the top field.
I just hope this doesn't come across as a rant from a privileged elite, it's just that this seems to be the complete opposite to what the Foundation stands for and is trying to achieve and we do feel truly privileged to be able to fish this beautiful river and hope we have the opportunity to do so for many years to come. It's just that this type of behaviour will put that opportunity in jeopardy. Many thanks WUF.
WUF Note : Permitted dates for the use of maggots on the Wye is 15th Sept to 14 March. Please report any illegal activity to the EA Hotline 0800 80 70 60 as instructed in the 'What to do if...' guide sent with your Booking Confirmation email

6 Barbel, 18 Chub

This was our first visit to this beat and it truly is in the middle of nowhere - the caravans at the bottom of the stretch do spoil the view somewhat but there was no real noise or disturbance from them.
We arrived at 4pm and started off rolling some meat in the first field as it looked too good to pass up. The fish were not very obliging however and a solitary eel was all that we could manage. We then moved down to the island to a deep run that looked perfect. We had a chub first cast but after 2 hours we hadn't had any more knocks. We moved back upstream and settled into a swim and managed a few chub in quick succession then I hooked a barbel which threw the hook in on of the many trees littering the nearside bank. Fortunately we managed to get the barbel going and ended the evening with 9 fish up to 8lb. This was a huge framed fish but was completely empty and in the autumn would comfortably be over 9lb.
A lovely beat that I will looked forward to returning to in September and there are a couple of other areas I would like to explore.

9 Barbel, 9 Chub, 1 Other

River looked perfect and we were expecting a good day but for some reason the river had switched off and 9 hours fishing brought us just 3 bites and 3 small barbel. The chub had completely disappeared.

3 Barbel