Feedback & Reports

5 Trout

Trout to 10 inches and grayling to 14 inches.

3 Trout, 14 Grayling

Very coloured. 18 inches.

8 lbs fly from Cadora Backs this am. Also 2 fish not recorded for May from Redbrook bringing total to 8 for this water.

1 Salmon

18.30 to 21.20. In lower wood area. Not a touch until 20.45 then 4 chub in 2 to 3lb size on h pellet. Very tentative bites and had to up hook size to 8 to connect as suspect pellet covering original size 10 hook. Unusual evening, no canoes, ducks, swans or other wildlife moving but did have 3 mid sized barbel swimming at my feet picking up pellets fallen from swim feeder whilst preparing to cast!!

4 Chub

Fished the evening, lots of fish rising, but many in places where it was difficult to cast. Caught fish on a size 16 adams. A lovely beat, and will return soon.

1 Trout

Really only one spot to fly fish from on this beat. Not very good value. If I was fishing this beat again I would coarse fish it instead.

Fished there 21 June, pleasant day. 8 Aug, perfect conditions, not a touch till 6.30pm. Just 2 chub between then and 8pm. Not every day the same, it will not stop me trying again!

When I have seen people reporting blanking on the Wye I have often wondered if they tried hard enough! I tried very hard in a variety of swims and still drew my first ever blank on the Wye. Lost a couple of barbel late afternoon, one a hook pull and the other with line sliced on a rock! My partner found the one swim that was more consistent and hard one barbel at 7lb 12oz and 6 chub.
We were coming back the next day for more of the same; I decided to try and build up some bait in the swim I lost the fish and hope that they came on the feed in the evening as they had on this day. I have caught plenty of barbel on the Wye in hot sun and low water before but not on this day.

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

Please note we also fished Middle Hill Court on the 9th August - 2 anglers, caught a total of 3 barbel to 8lb in weight.

1 Barbel, 6 Chub