Feedback & Reports

A rare morning of fishing for a father of two young children! No fish caught but a delightful 6 hours nevertheless. Water very low, weather overcast. Quite a few fish seen and feeding but all incredibly wary. Spotted one stunning brownie at around 2lb and managed to get my fly in front of it but not interested and then took off. Decent fish were all tight into banks.
Two takes, both small fish, both missed, one on Olive Klinkhammer, one on olive EHC.
Lovely spot, recommended, especially with a bit more water.

River extremely low and in desperate need of rain.
We started fishing at the bottom end of the beat and finished the day in the swims by the fishing hut.
Despite our best efforts we could only manage one small chub. We're certain this beat would produce more fish in better river conditions.

1 Chub

Not my best trip there but was my shortest! I arrived at first light fished the bottom pool and had 4 barbel, three of which were about 1lb in weight each at best and one of about 4lb. Also had two chub here. All came in about the first one and a half hours then the bites stopped. Water was very shallow, after hooking a few fish felt the pool was done, with any other barbel that were present, long gone. Needs an extra few feet of water to hold the fish in numbers and not to move them out when a few get caught. Decided to call it a day at about 9am. Walking back to the car I stopped at a couple of the deeper runs and had another 2 chub. All fish came to mixed sized pellets in PVA mesh bags with a long 5ft hook length. Moved to a deeper part of the Wye nearer to where I was visiting family in Hereford, a move that paid off with a few more barbel during the day. Still enjoyed my visit to Wyebank but with hindsight should have booked the Courtfield beat with more water to go at and more depth for the fish to be comfortable at as well. But still, reading the recent catch reports I think I'd had a good day taking all in to account.

4 Barbel, 4 Chub

Arrived at 9.00am. The river was low and clear with only the 1st and last swims having a bit of flow in them.
We both started on the float for a couple of hours with a few small fish the only result. Tried feeder just in case they wanted a static bait but nothing. We both moved to the end peg and floated fished the same swim putting in plenty of bait, my fishing friend lost a good barbel at the net, but landed 2 and lost another, I lost 1 and had a chub of about 3lb. The barbel were just under 7lb and about 5. The rain came in the afternoon and we were a bit un-prepared so finished about 7pm.
I must reiterate a previous comment about the car access, in a standard saloon you will scrape the bottom of the car so be careful, otherwise a good beat.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

6 small grayling caught

6 Grayling

Brought a good friend visiting from Cyprus to this stretch as the access is reasonable and it has fished well on my 2 previous visits.

On our arrival I could see that the river was a good 4 feet or so down on my previous visit in June. I decided to fish down from the rocks as we needed to stay together as he had not fished for some time and hoped to move to top end later for the evening when he was more confident. Unfortunately rain set in before we knew it so we decided to stay put in the hope of fish being more mobile due to the darker wet conditions and also the access to the other swims was getting very slippery to say the least. Sadly it was to be the quietest day that I have ever had on the Wye with no fish coming our way. Did try up near the rocks and under the pylons for a short time with meat but flow was very slow and banks were very slippery to be honest so did not really give it that long as rain just got quite hard as afternoon progressed. Got to take the rough with the smooth I suppose. Will wait for Autumn and a little more water before I return as exited as ever to fish this lovely stretch. Already looking forward to my next visit.

Sunny day, river high but running clear. 18 brown trout to 14". 4 grayling to 14" and 1 chub about 3lb.

18 Trout, 4 Grayling, 1 Chub

Very low water levels made the fishing extremely difficult. We started at the bottom end of the fishery and finished the day in the swims by the hut with only one small chub to show for our efforts.
A pleasant fishery which we are sure would produce plenty of fish in better conditions.

1 Chub

Day 2 of our trip. What a difference a day makes! Arrived at the river just after sun rise, although we didn't have enough rain the day before to affect the river conditions that much, we both felt a lot more confident about our chances. A cooler, over cast day with rain forecast for the afternoon. We tried 1 or 2 swims each giving them 1 hour before we both found a swim each that produced barbel throughout the day. The final score was a draw, 10 barbel 1 chub each. What a way for CB to spend his Birthday, and to top it off he had a phone call to say he got a new job. Definitely one to be remembered. Thank You WUF.

20 Barbel, 2 Chub

Arrived mid-day and started at the bottom end of the fishery for a couple of hours to no avail. Moved to the top section which coincided with heavens opening and staying open for the rest of the day. I've never seen the river this low and apart from the odd patch of blanket weed, where has all the weed gone on this stretch? The sound of a generator abstracting water kept us company for a few hours in the afternoon, and it was sad to see that swims we'd fished in previous seasons had all been washed away and not replaced, leaving only two fishable swims in the top section. My friend ended up with 4 eels and a lot of lost tackle (rocks) and I could only manage 2 barbel and 6 chub. Without a doubt, this was the worst day's fishing we've experienced on this wonderful river and somewhat concerned about the lack of any real weed growth on this stretch.
This used to be a favourite stretch of ours, but I'm afraid, no more.

2 Barbel, 6 Chub, 4 Other