Feedback & Reports

Change of plans meant a short morning session fishing alone with stretch to myself. Lost fish first cast, then proceeded to lose lots of tackle to snags trying to find fish in four different swims. One eel the only return. Not the best session ever.

1 Other

Fished from 10am til 7pm, conditions were spot on with cloud cover for most of the day. Listened to advice and fished the bottom pool which turned out to be a barbel nursery with lots of fish caught under the 1lb mark and bites coming within seconds. Biggest caught was around 5/6lb and some nice chub to 4lb and 1 eel!
All fish caught on feeder and pellets and for those looking for quantity we would highly recommend this beat.

41 Barbel, 12 Chub, 1 Other

Difficult conditions being very low and clear. Fish fed early morning and late evening (after 7pm)
Largest barbel 9lbs 2oz and chub 4lbs 7oz. Great place to fish.

7 Barbel, 3 Chub

Quite a challenging day on a lovely stretch of the river. Despite moving swims a number of time we didn't have a bite until 7pm and then between 7pm & 9pm caught three barbel (biggest 6lb 14oz).

3 Barbel

Number of fish seen especially in Cadora Pool but no takers.

Not worth it for fly fishing, most spots taken up with bait anglers, very limited places to fish with a fly. Few fish showing, managed 1 bite and gave up after a couple of hours.

Grilise 7lb for Simon MacLucas taken on single handed rod small GP fly fantastic!

1 Salmon

River very low and clear to the point that we could see bottom of river all the way through beat of this shallow stretch. In these conditions there are only two fishable swims. However we persevered in difficult conditions and were rewarded with 4 barbel and 13 chub.

4 Barbel, 13 Chub

A last minute decision to fish the Wye instead of the Severn was a good call. After reading the catch reports we decided to make the long and steep walk to the bottom fields. We walked the stretch and settled on a couple of swims. The pace was very slow and quite clear resulting in one chub between us in a couple of hours. MH decided to walk back to the start of the beat at lunch time and quickly had 3 barbel one a 10lb fish. I joined him soon after and we caught steadily for the rest of the day. Pellets, boillies and meat all worked as well as feeders. River was low so god knows how good it would be with some colour in it. Have fished a few beats on the Wye and this is one of the nicest. Dog walkers were polite and not many canoeists.

1 Grayling, 17 Barbel, 8 Chub

Lots of baby barbell. Best fished with a centre pin and float.

50 Barbel, 25 Chub