Feedback & Reports

A steady day with fish falling for meat. Average size of chub 3lb and barbel 5lb. A very enjoyable day with no rain!

3 Barbel, 12 Chub

2 Barbel, 3 Chub

River dropping but still very high, but becoming clearer. All fish caught on luncheon meat. Met bailiff at river, he was very helpful. This has become my regular second day venue after a stop over. A good stretch.

4 Barbel, 10 Chub, 1 Other

All caught on standard feeder & pellet tactics from beat 2 & 4. Vans got licked to death by the cattle when parking just inside field at best 2, only a couple of small scratches but wouldn't park there again. Nice looking stretch of the Wye.

4 Barbel, 10 Chub

Half a day fishing, four barbel 6-9lb caught on boillies & pellets. River semi-coloured with good flow.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

Water clear and fairly low. Fish all caught on dry fly. The fish were small - between a quarter and half a pound - all were returned to the water.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

The river was up by three and a half feet as indicated by the gauge in the river and racing by overriding most of the usual complex swims. I employed a huge amount of weight to hold against the flow and caught consistently though out the day. After catching five barbel and no chub in the first hour and a half I only managed to catch one more barbel later on in the day as the bully boy chub were pouncing on the bait. In retrospect I should not have used a feeder at all or stopped after a few casts as the constant feed just brought the chub into play. A couple of the barbel were in the 7 to 8 pound class and the chub were all sizes up to 3 to 4 pounds.
The other angler was a good companion for the day and I had a pleasant and informative talk with Colin too.

6 Barbel, 26 Chub

A pleasant enough day, overcast with an intermittent breeze. Not a sausage! Hardly a rise all afternoon, I tried everything but to no avail. The resident Kingfisher patrolling it's stretch above the weir certainly isn't shy. I hope it had more success than me. Unusually the indoor chicken farm(?) was very smelly.

2 small trout - both put back

2 Trout

Lovely, pretty beat (my first time here) but blanked, unfortunately. French nymphed for most of the day and lost 3. Not a lot of insect life about but maybe that's usual as the season progresses around here. Would like to come back and try again.
Thanks WUF.