Feedback & Reports

Fabulous weather.
Water in good nick about 0.6 at Skenfrith Level.
6 small WBT on nymphs.

6 Trout

Arrived at Courtfield on a bright sunnay day with the river falling. Had an early fish at 8:30am of approx. 6-7lb with nothing then until 5pm when I had consecutive fish of approx. 2lb and a 8.75lb fish that appeared full of spawn. Great day will be back next season.

3 Barbel

Despite the river being high, .9 on the gauge, there was a good hatch of both LDO's and March Browns. I got 8 fish on various spider patters at lunchtime, with the best fish at 1lb 8oz. All were returned and were in excellent condition.

8 Trout

With the river starting to clear, bright conditions today made for a slow session. I fished most of the day in a high water swim in the top field that had previously proved productive, and had to work hard to catch 3 barbel up to 5lb by midday. I sat it out until the evening in this swim, but failed to get another bite. A move further downstream for the last half hour resulted in one hook pull, followed by a barbel of 7lb 11oz before i had to pack up.

4 Barbel

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

What a brilliant day to end the season ! Had 2 beautiful barbel and one chub . The barbel was really special . I want to say it was 12 lb but it wasn't just a whisker under 11 lb 13 oz, my biggest barbel from the Wye ! I did get a 11lb 2 oz from Belmont in 2014! The other barbel was another good fish 8 lb 10 oz . Backed up with a chub 4lb 10 oz al on halibut flavour meat ! My son and I had a great day thank you all at the Wye and Usk foundation.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Fished until 1pm a trout and grayling on the French leader and the other grayling taken on the dry fly olives pattern all fish 1-1/2lbs, only the odd few flys hatching no real hatch today. We spent the rest of the day on bank maintenance

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

1 nice WBT about 14" caught upstream nymphing, taken on a soft hackled pheasant. There were a few fish sporadically rising to a reasonable March Brown hatch but none were seduced by my dry flies however this may have been due to my rusty presentations in a stiff breeze after a long winter.

1 Trout

5 Trout