Feedback & Reports

The weather looked perfect - a soft warm day with high cloud. Fish were enjoying themselves too - plenty of fly lie around in the air, only saw a few yellow mays and olives hatching though. River getting very low but that does mean areas that can otherwise be difficult to access are available to cover. Trout to 10" and lovely fat grayling to 17". All fish caught on dries - para ginger quill, deerhair sedge and Griffiths gnat. A clonker blipping in a deep channel took the gnat and took me straight down to the rocks and cut the leader - ho hum!

12 Trout, 18 Grayling

We were all very disappointed with this beat. 2/3 of a mile of fishing with only 3 jungle busting safe places to fish. There has been no attempt by riparian owners to create something of a coarse fishery. Banks are very steep and heavily vegetated or tree lined to make access impossible. Some good Barbel were seen among the Ranunculus in places where it was simply unsafe or impossible to fish. We stayed to 1pm and then abandoned the beat. Not worth the £60 we paid to fish here. Very disappointed.

Hot day, no fish seen none taken. Nice beat, very pretty place to be in any weather. Foundation staff were a great help, thanks! Quite few canoes on this beat.

Lovely countryside, sorry to say no fish caught. Found all this beat had lots of weed along the bottom of the river which made for a difficult day.

A lovely stretch of river in a beautiful setting. Some surface activity so fished with a small dry. Caught a handsome fish (10 inch) on the surface at one of the deeper pools. The rest caught on a spider New Zealand style.

6 Trout

Not the best day's fishing we've had on here. Plenty of fish visible but we just couldn't them feeding consistently. A recommendation for the Portway Inn, an ideal base for the WUF waters NW of Hereford, good food, comfortable & reasonably priced rooms and Wye Valley bitter at £3/pint!

5 Barbel, 5 Chub

Pleasant evening. All fish between 6-8" taken on klink and soft hackle. Some deep pools and large slippery rocks so careful wading! Lovely beat, all fish safely returned including plucky salmon parr!

3 Salmon, 4 Trout, 1 Grayling

Great days fishing.

12 Barbel, 40 Chub

Brilliant day - good to have gone back to try what I learned the previous week. Only fished until 2pm and I'm sure the barbel would have come back on again at 4-ish as they so often do. The first barbel weighed 8oz - I thought it was a little eel at first - luckily mum and dad came along later. All the fish were immaculate. Lots of canoes but only one group got silly, parked up and started swimming and splashing about. The rest were fine. Thanks WUF.

3 Barbel, 15 Chub, 1 Other

My first Wild Stream trip as a season ticket holder. A couple of evening hours on the Arrow resulting in a nice 10in brownie on a Parachute Adams and a minnow on a pheasant-tail nymph almost as big as the fish. Plenty of fish rising along the beat although many small and very fast-taking (hence only the one trout to hand!). Stopped at the weir as the light was fading. Lovely beat, will return. Fly life good also, a few mays stillcoming off but plenty of smaller upwings as well.

1 Trout, 1 Other