Feedback & Reports

River was low and clear. we fished pellet on pellet waggler and had eight fish between us.T he fish were all in the 4-6lb bracket.
I would not recommend this stretch for more than two anglers as the swims were limited and there were 7 anglers on the other bank mostly either wading across to our bank were there was the most flow or feeder fishing again onto our bank. This meant that the limited number of swims were even more limited.

8 Barbel

2 caught all day. Fish seemed to be in there butt not feeding. Probably due to warmth

2 Trout

3 Trout, 1 Chub

2 Trout

River on its bones now. Not much hatching. Landed 5 grayling 4" to 12", on a small beaded GRHE from deep pools and on small grey duster para. Saw no trout except one that took the para and then came off quickly. More encouraging, there were small fish in nearly every run, splashing around - managed to catch a couple at 4", both grayling so the assumption is that there are a lot of grayling parr in the river. So much so that they were usually first to splash at the para everywhere. Stayed till 7.00pm but no evening rise at that point.

5 Grayling

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

2 Barbel

12 hour session mainly on bottom pool. Overcast mainly. Pellet accounted for all fish which were caught in faster water. Most fish were in the 1 to 3lb bracket and came around mid-afternoon but biggest barbel (5lb) caught early evening. Lost around 10 feeders/leads/rigs in either weed or rocks but c'est la vie with Wye barbel angling.
Nephew had a debut barbel with first cast and the 5 pounder late in the day - a good way to finish the session.

23 Barbel, 1 Chub

7 Barbel, 1 Chub

swim feeder and pellets

2 Chub