Feedback & Reports

With the main river very low I decided to try a wild stream. What fun. the level was a bit low so searching out the pockets of deeper water was the key with a stealthy approach. I used a 7'6" 3wt rod with single dry flies, which was perfect apart from the odd bit of blustery wind. 100m up the stream I came across a fresh dead WBT which must have weighed over 3lb. That might have been a challenge on a 3wt. Worked my way to the top and ended up walking back down through the stream as no obvious path or route to the road. Wading stick essential.

4 Trout

Thrashed out a couple of swims in the jungle at top end of beat. Fish weren't really on it all day - a bit of action after 4pm but generally slow. River low.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

Nice day, nice beat. No salmon caught.

River very low and a strong downstream wind made life difficult. Did catch mainly on dries in the faster water or under cover of trees. Best fish about a pound.

14 Trout

Fished Wye for the first time. River low and very clear, weather was hot with some cloud at times through the day. Fished from 7.30 a.m to 3 p.m. but I could not get a bite all day on the lower part of the beat opposite the white & yellow house on far bank. The swim looked ok with a few feet depth of water in front of me. Used feeder with pellet bait & tried luncheon meat on the hook also. Moved to upper section just above the orchard and started to get bites off far bank to luncheon meat from about 5 p.m. but still no bites or proper takes. Very disapointing and I hope the Creel gives up some fish to me tomorrow.

Started off trotting luncheon through fast water by the side of the island and had three chub in half hour all about 3lb. Then the canoes came, one after the other for 5 hours so switched to feeder and picked up 5 more with the biggest two 5lb. Moved to top of beat for last knocks and picked up a lovely barbel nudging 10lb. Lovely beat if you can tolerate the canoes and the huge amount of weed that follows them. Saw a few huge carp in the slower water late on. Also two eels the one about 3lb, the other about 1.5lb.

1 Barbel, 8 Chub, 2 Other

6 Trout

Lovely afternoon on a lovely stretch of river. Wind caused us problems. The lower stretch of the beat hard to access due to it being slow and deep and the banks over grown. Also a wedding party going on in the field right next to the wier made for a little disturbance to the tranquillity of the setting.

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

Amazing evenings fishing. Arrived at 1pm but decided not to bother setting up due to the number of canoes. With the river being so low swims were limited because of boat traffic but finally started fishing about 5pm. Bait was hemp and ellipse pellet, I fished for 4 hours and had a take on every cast. I caught 22 and lost severel more. had 4 fish around 8-9lb the rest averaging between 2-5lb. Fantastic river when you can find these barbel.

22 Barbel

Fantastic day on this beautiful beat. Warm and overcast provided the opportunity to start and fish the full day on dries. Starting of with the klink n dink which produced a few fish to the Nymph, but within a hour the fish were onto the dry. Klinkhammer special in #14 being the fly used all day. Had to change the fly half way through the day as the fish destroyed the first one. Not a great deal of fish seen rising, but they were pretty keen to rise to my fly if it went over then. A lot of caddis on the water with a few bwos. Fished to about 5pm and by then I was,knackered but extremely satisfied with the day. I said 30 grayling, but I stopped counting at twenty and that was a 1pm. Nothing of any great size biggest being grayling of 15" and brown of 14".

5 Trout, 30 Grayling, 1 Other