Feedback & Reports

First visit to this beat, lovely setting. River low and clear. Both fished top end swims in morning with only a few chub to show. 1 small barbel from faster water by island then nothing. Moved again and had 6 big barbel and several chub in a couple of hours. Biggest barbel a nice double at 10lb 3oz, smallest around 7lb. Chub to around 4lb. Fish caught on pellet and boilie.

7 Barbel, 11 Chub

Took local advice. Still caught 0.

A steady start after a canoe capsized over our start area with a child going under but everybody was ok and fishing commenced. It was steady going with barbel coming to pellet and a few chub too.
Our youngest member proposed we move when it got quieter early evening and it paid off as we each caught more barbel from three more swims as the sun went down on yet another glorious Wye setting.
I had an otter taking a dislike to me as it swam past hissing after it spotted me whilst working the margins.
One of my party hates them but if you want to catch wonderful wild fish you must share the river with the wonderful wildlife. I love them even if it did go quiet afterwards.
The early evening bats were feeding well on the supply of mayfly hatching out.
Very enjoyable.

23 Barbel, 11 Chub

Lovely sunny day but river shaded and lots of fallen trees.
However a really magical afternoon and evening. All fish over 8 ins and one 14 ins -very fit. Small wild stream fishing at its best.

5 Trout

Very low water made for testing conditions. Managed to find a few fish, but anything in flat water spooked immediately. Sparse hatch of stonefly and the odd upwing. Challenging but enjoyable day.

6 Trout, 4 Other

Beautiful day, with river in good condition. Plenty of fly life in the several pools below the waterfall near the farm with many rises in the glides. One small brown trout taken on dry fly & released, but otherwise no response to either wet or dry flies.

1 Trout

Blank for salmon. Fished early and late, to avoid the canoes. A lovely piece of fly water in even lovelier scenery but no contact on this occasion.

Fished for around 6 hours on this beautiful stretch of river. Caught 3 small Bream on the fly -unusual. Very hot and a lot of canoe traffic. No sign of any other fish action.

3 Other

This is our second visit this year and anther fantastic days fishing with 27 fish caught all on dry fly I must say some thing about the farmer in a white Land Rover who shut the gate so we could not open it the gate was open when we drove down to the lake he did on purpose he knew we where there he could see the car down by the boat house we had to lift the gate off its hinges and put it back on so other anglers need to be aware of this

27 Trout

No fish caught 2 hour session in evening