Feedback & Reports

Myself and three friends attended a Tenkara fishing experience based at Caer Beris Manor Hotel. We all enjoyed our weekend immensely and will probably book it again next year. Although I only had one fish to hand I had several long distance releases!

1 Grayling

This was the first of two days on this stretch. Unfortunately didn't start fishing until about 17:30 but no canoeists which was obviously an advantage. The weather was foul, heavy rain with a very slight rise in the river level. It was a little above normal levels but substantially higher than last year. It was also rather coloured but not a chocolate colour just dirty. Fished the bottom pool with feeders, homemade boilies and pellets and landed several small chub and barbel. A couple of the barbel touching the 7lb mark.

5 Barbel, 2 Chub

Tenkara Fishing - one nice wbt caught while not assisting others.

1 Trout

Grayling Society/WUF Tenkara Fishing Day. Beautiful location, a lovely day's fishing. Thank you.

Caught one barbel at 8lb on boilie. Fishing conditions were wet and windy

1 Barbel

No fish caught or seen.

Nice height (1' on Fownhope gauge) but water still too coloured after recent small rise. Plenty of walkers and canoeists about.

First time I have fished this stretch of the Wye. Overcast, fished for a couple of hours.
No Trout caught but 8 Graying landed, all returned. Will come back next year.

8 Grayling

An improved river faced us on arrival after the huge disappointment of opening day. We arrived at dawn and decided on trying the meadow stretch first as had heard good reports through the week. We went to the pipe swim and it looked perfect. We fished for an hour and no bites were forthcoming. So, as many say, if you don't catch in the first hour, move on. So we decided to move to the woods section. We saw a car there so decided to go to the bottom end of the fishery and fished approximately 50 yards downstream from the steps near the willow tree. This proved to be a good move as we got in to Barbel straight away with a few chub in between. The good fishing continued for a few hours. We also lost a few large fish to snags. Biggest landed was just over 8lbs.
Unfortunately the fishing slowed up with the arrival of the Kayaks. Normally you put up with them and expect many on a weekend, but long story short, today's bunch were by far the worst I have ever witnessed ever. Rude, ignorant, total disregard for anglers, capsizing kayaks in front of us, water fights in front of us and one guy shouting very serious threatening profanities at me (In front of my son) when I asked his wife politely to watch out for our lines. In all honesty this lot put us off fishing the wye again, but I'm sure we'll return. The kayak hire companies should give out far better advice. Respect everyone on the river please.
After they were all gone, and amazingly we stuck it out, the Barbel came back on the feed and we landed another one and lost a couple. Unfortunately the heavens well and truly opened and the extremity of the rain forced us to retire with the evening approaching.
Great fishing at times spoilt by some true idiots (And the good old British weather)

9 Barbel, 6 Chub

This is a really nice stretch of water, exactly how I like to see the Wye, lots of shallow gravel runs and islands. I had a good feeling about this place. I fished beat 3 which is only a little walk from the Boat Inn. Lots of cattle in the field behind that would occasionally make a charge through the field so beware! I used normal barbel tactics, pellet and feeder/pva etc. Didn't catch loads of fish but was happy to catch a nice chub just short of 5lb and a barbel at 7lb. Lovely venue, I enjoyed fishing here.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub