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First time fishing this beat. Only 3 real pegs with the current low water conditions. Caught throughout the day on feeder and pellet. Ended up with 24 barbel between us but mostly small, in fact i’ve never caught barbel this small before!

24 Barbel, 6 Chub

First visit to this beat. Parking is easy and the walk down to the river is steep but short, and the advice to travel light is sensible. There are lots of shallows with streamer weed but only one safe place to enter the river with waders that I could find which was in the upper field. This stretch has a fast run on the far side that produced most of the chub to around 4lb on trotted corn and meat in the morning. After lunch I moved around trying to find the barbel with ledger and feeder. The first few pegs in the lowest field are accessible but the flow is very slow when the water level is low. I eventually netted a lovely conditioned barbel of around 5lb from the croy peg at the top of the beat as the sun was setting. A quiet and picturesque beat with lots of kingfishers. Saw one cormorant fly over.

1 Barbel, 9 Chub

River was in better condition, however challenging with a fair bit of weed flowing through. 1 barbel around the 7 mark fell to meat, with a few chub on trotting tactics. Going was tough but enjoyable day.

Lovely stretch with well maintained swims and good access.

1 Barbel

Fish caught on corn at lower end of beat fish didn't feed until light started to wain. River low and clear, some weed beginning to break up. Nice day great venue.

9 Barbel

Had a great day on this lovely section of the river. Plenty of bites thought out the day. Managed to catch 4 and lost 2 fish down to snags. I stayed in the one swim in the meadow as I was happy with the action I was getting. Bites slowed down into the evening. All fish taken on pellet and feeder.

4 Barbel

Tough day with no bites at all. Strange not to catch as I caught here last week plus the stretch has been fishing very well of late. A previous review did mention the appearance of an otter so maybe the little blighter was still about. Even at dusk not a bite. This is a good beat though and we just had an off day.

Fished the upper part of the beat ( infront and left of church) for most of day. Wind again making things awkward. We could not buy a bite all day, trying different baits and combinations. Only 1 nice chub 4lb+ was banked from 8am until the evening. When the wind eased off and sun started to go down, a change to sweetcorn started to produce bites 3/4 across into the deeper water just off main flow. In 2 hours 3 barbel ( biggest 8lb 5oz) and 2 more chub were caught. All to 3 or 4 grains of sweetcorn on standard feeder tactics. Put a nice a finish on a frustrating day.
We both enjoyed our 2 days on the creel, the wye is always a lovly place to fish, catching or not.
The only negative is after pre baiting a couple swims, as we were just about to fish them a group of inconsiderate female kayakers made alot of noise, messed and splashed around infront of us, paddled back against the flow and as a result one capsised creating loads of comotion. All this right in infront our pre baited swims, which after about 20 mins of this there was no point in fishing. While I agree that the wye is for everyone to use, its frustrating sometimes when people dont consider others.
All in all a great 2 days fishing, thanks w&u.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

Certainly a very pretty river. Extremely low water with weed and shingle showing. Long stretches almost still water but sufficient riffles to make it interesting. I think this stretch would fish well with water on it, perhaps another 18 inches. We caught 2 nice trout and 2 grayling about 7 inches and a chub about 1lb. Used small beige klinkhammer dry and a #16 PTN with a pink 2mm bead, either fishing dry or nymphing. 8ft #3 weight rod quite sufficient for this water which is not wide and easy wading.

2 Trout, 1 Chub, 4 Other

Same as yesterday.Stayed at usk valley guest house very nice people and accomadation

Stalking required, fish to be found in the deeper pools. Caught one on a ghe nymph

1 Trout