Feedback & Reports

3 Trout

Nice and easy fishery to find, good access to river. River very clear. Stuck it out on the feeder but only one barbel about 6lb. Should have done a bit of trotting as well. You live and learn from other reports.

1 Barbel

A tricky day with a rising river and loads of floating weed and debris making fishing in the flow near impossible. Even so, a great day out as it always is on the Wye.

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

Tough day, did find a few fish taking iron blue duns!

4 Trout

One cracking fish, small hatch of iron blue duns.

5 Trout

The river came up 1.5 feet overnight after some rain upstream. It gave the (low) river a bit more colour. Together with heavy clouds, some drizzling rain and a strong wind, conditions were ideal. All bites came in approximately 1 golden hour between 17:30pm and 18:30pm.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

River in great order, but sadly anticipation not matched by results. Weather cool, cloudy bright, and expected activity did not materialise. Much of the day spent river watching, waiting for tell tale dimples, but even this avid watcher failed to see a single fish all day, even in the tastiest of bubble lines and other likely spots.

Had a really bad days fishing, only had one bite from a very small fish, I didn't see any other signs of fish at all despite conditions being good.

A secluded and tranquil stretch of the river Wye, this beat offers a good range of swims. On the day of our visit there was some additional colour from recent rains and the river was at near normal level. The fishing proved difficult with just four barbel from this usually productive stretch, all falling to pellet presented in various ways. There were chub to be caught on meat on the straight lead and we could have had more if we had focused on this species and we finished with eight between the two rods. A lot of weed drifting downstream made presentation difficult throughout the day. All fish were caught from swims in the first field.

4 Barbel, 8 Chub

Had a superb day fishing, lots of barbel, smallest was 6.5lb and biggest was my brothers new pb of 9lb. Had a 5lb chub trotting the float, best fun I've ever had, lots of decent floatfishing to be had in Whitney court. This was our second visit, we came last week, had to come again! Beautiful stretch of the Wye, lots of fishable swims, recommend strongly to travel light, as the only way is to move on if your not getting any bites...
We met Terry the bailiff/gamekeeper, he had some invaluable advice and was very forthcoming and friendly and pointed out to the hotspots!
Can't wait to come again, might book it out for a few more days next time! Found that any baits worked, if they're where I the swim, they're gonna take your bait, we were using luncheon meat and pellet in paste..
10/10

14 Barbel, 6 Chub