Feedback & Reports

Fairly quiet until late afternoon when things livened up, some nice Barbel that fought hard in fast water,3 over 8 lbs, also couple of small ones under 1 lb which is a good sign for the future .All in all a nice beat to fish and hope to return next season.

12 Barbel, 3 Chub

Lovely soft, warm day with showers, river low and clear. No sign of feeding trout today however and four hours' fishing produced only a couple of knocks, so with the main pool getting rather hammered by two of us I decided to give it best. I am not convinced that with low water this beat is big enough for two anglers, as there is so much slack water in the middle and at the bottom end. Studded waders recommended for the slippery stones.

Another good day on this beat.

9 Barbel, 20 Chub

One decent 16" trout landed and two others pricked. Like yesterday (Abercynrig) river very low, rises were sporadic and hard to cover in clear conditions and downstream wind. Tried everything but I was found to be lacking. Sometimes reasonable hatches but fish largely ignored top of water. Caught on a copper beaded dark nymph with no name from fast water. One seriously fat fish and the river and wildlife were beautiful.

1 Trout

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

Four trout caught on downstream nymphs. One during the day, and three as the daylight faded.

4 Trout

I guess we were just unlucky, but the day was almost a complete write-off with uprooted streamer weed pushing through all day, always dragging the bait away within minutes of casting. Very difficult conditions - our challenge was not catching fish, but getting the bait where it might work and keeping there. If it hadn't been for the weed problem, the stretch looks as though it would be a really good stretch to fish using a variety of methods.
The 'other' fish was a small eel!

2 Chub, 1 Other

31 Barbel, 13 Chub

Well that's why it's called fishing and not catching as the saying goes!
We had originally booked the 5th on Wyebank and 6th on Courtfield, having read the fishing reports and with an eye on a Wye Pb we shifted the Wyebank booking which we had booked out for £75 for exclusivity,onto Courtfield meaning we had 2 days to try for a big fish.
We hadn't fished the stretch previously so got there at first light to recce the stretch, from the reports we plumbed for the wooded stretch, river very low and clear but looked inviting.
It rained heavily during the morning making moving about a bit dodgy on the riverside path, managed a hat trick of falls but managed to avoid breaking anything.
We fished 6-2 with very little sign fishing From the rocks, decided to move up to the meadow, managed 4 chub and 2 big eels on pellet and meat, no signs of barbel.

Retreated to a B&B to regroup and warm up and dry out the kit !

Bring on day 2 .

4 Chub, 2 Other