Feedback & Reports

Great days fishing, 16 x chub to 6lb 7oz and 11 x barbel to 10lb, all fish taken with feeder on meat or pellets.
The river was in excellent condition and the wildlife made it a pleasurable beat to fish.
The Canoe traffic was light throughout the day with the exception of two clowns in an inflatable with an outboard motor going through noisily churning up all the weed in the afternoon. We only left when it got dark!

11 Barbel, 16 Chub

3 Trout

No fish caught. Although plenty of signs. Only fished for 3 hours.

No fish caught.

River still very low.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

River was falling after a rise, was still quite coloured, which made wading a little more difficult. Tried, floating, intermediate and sinking tips with a variety of flies. Also fished downstream and across spinner, again with a variety of lures.
Saw plenty of trout, also saw an Otter whilst fishing the Hut pool.
Lovely stretch, good access, will return for another go, maybe take the trout rods next time too.

A great day on Saturday - fair bit of water running off the Beacons from Friday's downpour and water fairly brown in the morning before clearing around lunch. Very light intermittent drizzle in the afternoon which brought the fish on - missed a 1.5llb on the run before Vicarage pool and touched another four smaller fish or so. Took one 0.5lber. Beautiful setting and the wading was manageable even with a good current.

3 Trout

6 Chub

3 rainbow trout caught on spinners all returned in excellent condition. Took a walk up to far end of the lake and found what looked like some sort of poaching device with elastic tied to a stick under a rock at the water`s edge which we cut. Also lost around 4 other fish.

3 Trout

I never thought I would say this about the Wye but the Home Fisherie was slightly dissapointing
Not because of the beat itself but because of the very selfish idiots in canoes. All 200 plus of them totally oblivious of anglers and not a care in the world if they cut your lines and to top it off people from the youth hostel swimming through your swim!
Apart from this hassle we made the best of it and scratched 5 barbel and 4 chub. If you're reading this and have booked the beat I would strongly recommend you only fish very early or very late and avoid the daylight hours!
Once again we love the Wye and will definitely be back soon but not back to the Home beat I'm afraid.

WUF note - Please be aware that canoe traffic on the weekends is substantially heavier than during the week.

5 Barbel, 4 Chub