Feedback & Reports

River high but starting to drop. Lots of debris/weed coming downstream, should be perfect in the next couple of days. Fishing quite hard and had no bites for a couple of hours and then 2 fish in 2 casts, then another 2 fish just before I packed up. The last barbel of the day being the best at 8lb 15oz on meat.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

After the end of season update from the MR syndicate CARROTS fishery. 4 salmon to report.
28-03-2014 - 19lbs spinning
17-04-2014 - 8lbs spinning
06-05-2014 - 11lbs spinning.
04-06-2014 - 9lbs Fly Willie Gunn gold body.
All measured, photographed, and safely returned. Followed by a glass or two in the excellent Carrots Pub. Beat total up to 11. Looking forward as always to the meeting. JL

4 Salmon

The river had been up pushing through & lots of debris present. Great day on a great section, can't wait to go back with a few less tree's floating by.

4 Barbel

River looked in good condition with some colour following rain the day before. It dropped a foot whilst we were there but the fish would not respond! We managed only 2 chub and 1 barbel between us.
The only disappointing element is that this beat has very few usable pegs - we only found 2 that we could fish, the others looked rather dangerous!

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Washed off

2nd day of my trip, after blanking at Foy Bridge. The plan was to fish off the croy down the crease. Walked 20 minutes to find it under a foot of water.
Slow walk back down the beat to find a likely swim. Fished a swim behind a big tree creating some slower moving water. Caught 2 smallish chub and 4 barbel, 2lb, 3lb 12oz, 5lb 6oz and 8lb 1oz, all on feeder with pellet or spam as bait.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

Although I am a great fisherman and I've caught all kinds of fish, this time luck was not on our side, but me and my partner had a nice day. The river was in perfect condition, was perhaps time variant with a little rain and sun. We had some bites and watched carp and trout. It was a beautiful afternoon.

We fished from dawn til dusk and on a very high river. Although the water was ripping through at a fair pace, it was nicely coloured and showed promise for a good days fishing. We fished using pellet, meat and paste using both static and rolling tactics.
It was hard going all day and despite our best efforts the barbel didn't show; having said this we had three very nice chub and a very good day on a beautiful river.
We had hoped that our fortunes would change during that magic hour just after dusk but a visit from a hunting otter put pay to that!
Having not fished the Wye before some local knowledge and advice from the bailiff would have been welcome; however, he didn't contact me until the day after we had fished.

3 Chub

A tricky day. The high river conditions cut off the lower stretch of Wyebank that I was hoping to access so I fished peg one and the river mouth from after lunch instead. Lighter float tackle and worm brought a chublet and dace a chuck, nothing on the pellet feeder until dusk when one 4lb chub made a welcome appearance.

1 Chub

Good day, really tricky conditions. But still 4 barbel caught!

4 Barbel