Feedback & Reports

Complete blank - fair bit of water had gone into the river in 24hours so possible a temperature change turned the fish off the feed?

Shame, stretch look nice, easy manageable swims and some lovely deeper runs off the main flow but only one real whack on the tip all day, what I managed to miss.

Weather warm and sunny. Mostly chub on pellets. Fished middle section of bear. Beat neat and tidy. Credit to the baliff

2 Barbel, 18 Chub

I was hoping that Friday's rain would be put a bit of life into the river but, in spite of a pulse of water going through on Saturday, come Sunday morning, it was back down at 3 point something on the Byton gauge.

I had to work harder for my fish today; and had the impression that I was covering water that had been fished recently. No reports on Wye & Usk of anyone fishing on Saturday - so perhaps it was the occupants of the cottage? With the exception of a fast run just below the weir; where I had half a dozen fish in not much more than half a dozen casts, none of the multiple catches I associate with Lyepole - with a number of banker runs failing to produce.

Most of the Grayling were in the 7-8 inch class. Ditto for the Trout. I fished a Size 14 tungsten Endrick Spider on point with a Size 16 Snipe & Purple on dropper; with the majority of the Grayling taking the point fly and, if memory serves, all of the Trout except one taking the dropper.

As ever, the above figures are an estimate - these days I struggle counting past 5

10 Trout, 15 Grayling

First time fishing the beat. 1 trout on a Parra Adams. Had a quick session at 7am but there wasn't much activity so returned at 6pm. There was plenty of insect activity on the surface but not a lot of action. 5 trout raised but only managed to hook 1.

1 Trout

First time on this beat for me and my son. Managed to find some juvenile barbel to keep us entertained for the day. We had a very nice day and there were numerous different swims to try, each with their own challenges. We will be back and hopefully get into the bigger fish next time! All fish taken on feeder and pellets.

10 Barbel

Superb day despite very mixed weather. River up due to rain over previous two days (2ft on the gauge). The swim near the mouth of the Lugg produced all the fish, 2 in the late morning and the rest in the evening. All to pellet/feeder tactics. Chub a touch under 4lbs, Barbel from 4 to 6 and a half. A beautiful beat.

8 Barbel, 1 Chub

Arrived to find the river a bit higher than summer levels but not as high as expected after the recent rain, settled in the woods, I had 5 barbel including my first ever double at 10.6 lb CH had 2. 3 of the barbel were below 2 LB so good to see, all caught on barbel blitz pellett

7 Barbel

7 Trout

Again, the river was very coloured. Lots of rain and sometimes warm blue sky. I saw no fish activity all day, while lots of salmon jumps on the rectory the day before. I caught 2 trouts on cascade tubes.

2 Trout