Feedback & Reports

Fished in the evening. Just a few rises. Still some mayfly about. Hooked and lost a couple but my hamfisted and stealth free approach was unsuited to this enjoyable but challenging beat.

Nice beat caught 5 barbel in the evening on meat and pellets river was high and the odd tree branch came floating past found a nice swim near the island out of the main current a very enjoyable day thank you.

5 Barbel

Ledgered pellet

3 Barbel

The river was up, fast and coloured with a fair amount of debris coming through including some large branches and logs which took me out several times during the day. Levels slowly rose a further 15cm and the pace and colour increased in the afternoon. Fishing close in to find slacker water was the only option and, fortunately, the fish agreed with bites coming in batches of 2 or 3 at regular intervals. Pellets were the only bait tried with a 4oz feeder still struggling to hold bottom. As usual all the fish were immaculate and fit. The largest chub just topped 5lb and the largest barbel was 9-04.
Absolutely brilliant day - even the relatively small number of canoeists were courteous and careful. An otter popped up by my rod tip and gave me an evil stare but the usual wildlife, including a frequently passing kingfisher largely ignored me.
Thanks WUF. See you again soon.

4 Barbel, 11 Chub

The river was in flood and heavily coloured but levels were just starting to come down. We fished the lower beat but a lot of the pegs were unfishable with difficulty in holding the bottom when you did manage to find a suitable place to fish.
We did manage 3 Barbel to 5lb and 3 Chub to 3lb on pellet so not a complete disaster.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

First day of a 5 day break on the Wye for 2 of us and joined by a friend for today. The most successful day of our trip in terms of numbers caught, from a river slightly up and coloured. After driving 175 miles in the rain it stopped shortly after we arrived and we settled into swims upstream of the parking area . 1 rod caught 13 barbel, 1 caught 8 barbel and 2 chub and the other caught 4 barbel . The best barbel was 7lb 15oz and all were caught on variations of the pellet and open ended feeder approach .

25 Barbel, 2 Chub

One very small brown trout taken on a Para Adams. This was my first experience of wild stream fishing and it is definitely challenging! Water lower than expected. One or two mayfly about but mostly very small emergers in the surface film.

1 Trout

We arrived at the car parking area on this beat to find some low life had fly tipped a large amount of waste. With regards to the fishing this beat has always come up trumps for us and 12 barbel to 9lb 15oz and two chub were a good return. however,we must fully support the anglers who had to clear swims before they started,this beat has limited swims especially with the loss of Boys rock. Some work should have been done as from a health and safety point of view the banks were extremely dangerous not only for the anglers but also for the safe return of the the fish. This is now an overpriced beat and the Wye & Usk need to up their game to ensure safety after all there are few swims that you can fish.

12 Barbel, 2 Chub

River up about 18 inches and still carrying colour. Barbel to 8lbs and chub mainly around 3lbs with a couple at 5lbs. Fish to boilies and meat baits.

4 Barbel, 15 Chub

Rained all morning but river looked superb, just enough extra flow/colour. Fed three or four swims when I arrived and I caught steadily from 7:00 am. Stopped raining at about 11:30 am, and then the river started to rise alarmingly, within an hour all but 1 of the swims I had fed were unfishable, disappeared beneath an angry chocolate flood and the fish stopped feeding (only managed one chub in the afternoon/evening). The 7 Barbel ranged from 5lbs 4oz to 7lbs 2oz all caught on feeder/pellet. The chub all fell to the same method and were all around the albs mark.
First time on this stretch for me and as per normal I was not disappointed, thanks WUF.
Only saw two canoes all day and those passed by on the flood so quickly you could have water ski'd behind them!

7 Barbel, 6 Chub