Feedback & Reports

Although very hot and sunny for most of the day, a great days sport with fish feeding off and on all day. All fish, except 1 chub, came from the bottom end of the fishery - mostly to boilie with odd one to pellets in various forms. Canoe traffic was surprising light although we did have one group that was practicing for a canoeing certificate who were using the croy above my swim as a feature to navigate for an hour and a half. Also had a couple of children bathing and throwing rocks in the river from the opposite bank. However, it didn't bother the fish at all and multiple fish were landed during all the activity.

22 Barbel, 5 Chub

One early barbel, then nothing for the rest of the day.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Plenty of chub to start with and barbel in the evening all on pellets near the island in the fast water. Nice beat, will book later in the season. Many thanks.

4 Barbel, 10 Chub

I enjoyed my day. No catch to report, lots of traffic on the river and they also were enjoying their sport but at times there were up to 10 boats every ten mins or so. I don't worry about the boats and I enjoyed the day. I had one pull round but suffered a hook pull. I'd love to fish this section of the Wye again, there are a lot of Barbel there. No complaints. Many thanks and best regards.

12 Barbel 1 Chub on pellet.

12 Barbel, 1 Chub

I fished from 6.25am untill 8.45pm i caught a 2/3lb barbel with my first cast and a 8/10lb barbel with one of my last casts. The weather was hot and sunny all day. Not much caught in the canoe time 10.00am 6.00pm so had a swim with them and waited it out.

5 Barbel, 11 Chub

One fish caught on worm with popup.

1 Trout

First time on this beat, bit featureless to be honest. Parked at top field near tree line left kit at river's edge and walked both ways before deciding where to start. First point of call was second swim off to the left ....blankety blank for 2 1/2 hrs. Moved to first swim to the right from the tree line, same tactics and within minutes a 2-3lbs chub. 35mins later another, both to meat. Out went the feeder and elips pellets, 1 1/2 hours of nothing.
Had a good chat to the other angler on the beat and resumed the challenge...around 5:30 haha this is obviously eel time and good ones as well. 2 on meat with cracking running bites and one to the pellet hair rigged!!! It ruined the rig so I went back to the meat. At 6:50 ish another small 1-1/2 chub took the bait but this was again followed by another eel. That was enough for me today. Will be interesting to see other reports from today as a comparison, thought I fished OK.

3 Chub, 4 Other

Fished Upper Bigsweir today, lots of fish showing in the morning then the sun came out and put fish down. A very promising beat could do with a little tlc, ie access into the river not very good unless you are a mountain goat!!!!!

1 Salmon

Great day, also added to my entomology knowledge, seeing the mayfly and sedge duns and spinners so clearly. Started at the bridge and waded upstream, there is a path through the woods on the east with several paths down to the river requiring a 10 foot climb, although there are rough 'steps'. Wood stream can be quite deep, and the path stops before Chine. Meant to stay longer, but left at 7pm, but will be coming back to discover Chine and Rock pools. Thoroughly enjoyable, but I find the first visit is a getting to know you session.

1 Trout