Feedback & Reports

10 pounds hen coloured on fly

1 Salmon

5 Barbel

A decent afternoon, 4 barbel to 7lb and 3 chub, biggest 4lb 11oz caught on pellet from the woods swims.

4 Barbel, 3 Chub

One fish lost in the Chapel Gutters. Conditions perfect

Fish fed furiously from 1-3 pm, all bar one to #16 para adams, 10 -13”. Shared the bend that they all came from with a large otter....beautiful!!

9 Grayling

MB North Shields & TP Woodbridge had an enjoyable day on the Lyepole water. TP had 22 Grayling and 1 Oos Trout using French Nymph tactics whilst MB had 13 Grayling and 3 Oos Trout on Dry Fly. Most of the fish were caught above the bridge. Not a lot of surface activity but the Grayling were prepared to rise to dry flies.

4 Trout, 35 Grayling

Lure fishing for pike. Not many swims to cover but beautiful part of the Wye.

3 Pike

Lost a fish on beat 3 on a shrimp fly after brief contact, no fish seen jumping or splashing all day. Hard day's fishing.

1 Chub

late report I did say to lois I had not declared this one- 9lbs coloured cock, fly returned

1 Salmon

My first visit to this beat. A short session 14.30 to 18.30, having taken some time to walk much of the bank. Started in deep water near the top of the beat, but after more than two hours had only a small chub and a large eel to show for my efforts (the eel, unusually, was lip hooked and managed to release itself in the net. It must have been well over 2lbs, but I was pleased to see it go!) I then moved to some faster water and had one barbel around six pounds and lost a good fish when the hook link parted on my last cast of the day. Disappointing, but worth another visit.

It would help newcomers to this beat if there were a sign as you enter the farmyard showing which way to go from there.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other