Feedback & Reports

Started around 7:00am fished the bottom pool with pellets in brilliant sunshine until I got soaked in an epic thunder storm at around 1:0pm and decided to call it a day. Barbel ranged generally between 3/4lb to 51/2 pounds with one notably larger. River was quite low and falling. Access to the bottom pool is still quite difficult in wet conditions when carrying all the equipment and bait necessary for a day's fishing although some improvements have been made since I was last here.

12 Barbel, 1 Chub

River fished well throughout the day. Best barbel was 9.13 and the chub were to 4.14. All fish were caught on feeder using various pellet combinations. A heavy rain shower at lunch time made the banks very slippery so we were glad we'd both brought along a rope and spike which allowed safe access into the swims - an essential piece of kit for fishing some parts of the Wye.

21 Barbel, 6 Chub

Another great day on the Wye. Grayling in short supply.
Salmon even rarer. No rise to be seen, but some fly life coming off. water a bit high and coloured, great for salmon, but none seen.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

An attractive beat spoiled by the noisy antics of anglers on the far bank who didn't appreciate the tranquillity of the Wye and who were seen stuffing their barbel into keepnets. Heavy rain and thunderstorms limited our fishing to the afternoon by which time the banks were very slippery.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub

What a day! Arrived to bright sunshine and what proved to be mainly parr rising upstream of the house, cloudy by 10.30, an hour's thunderstorm around midday, more showers than not throughout the afternoon plus an intermittently mist-clad river. Spooky! At least it was still all day, warm, water at 60 degrees and fishable at 1'5" though pushing through. Hardly any fly and hardly a rise. We fished duo, nymphs and also tempted grayling to come up to Grayling Steel Blue, and olive and hare's ear emergers. All three methods caught fish. Trout from 10 -14" and grayling from 9-15". A hard, wet and less successful day than hoped for at 9 a.m.!

7 Trout, 16 Grayling

A difficult day, the weather not what we expected at all, two heavy thunder storms with fork lightning and torrential rain restricted the fishing somewhat but did manage to land
3 Barbel, 4 Chub and 1 eel. All fish taken on meat.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub, 1 Other

Novice to salmon fishing so an absorbing afternoon trying spinning tackle and tactics. Not sure the thunder, downpours and colouring of the river helped. 2 salmon seen surfacing but no connections this time.

Only managed a couple of hours fishing between the thundery showers. No fish caught but several splashing about in the gravel catch.

Rain, thunder storm, rain, sun. 2 trout, 3 grayling all super fit fish. Small dries and nymphs caught. Will return.

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

£45 is an outrageous amount. Nice place and 5 barbel but no effort has been put in by the Foundation to create any decent swims. In fact from the entrance to the bridge there are few accesable swims unless you want to fish fast shallows. Won't go on this stretch again.
WUF Note: There are several croys from which to fish upstream of the bridge at Caradoc that give access to deeper water.

5 Barbel, 1 Chub