Feedback & Reports

Superb day's fishing in beautiful surroundings with the barbel really coming on the feed from late afternoon. A pleasure to be there - thank you!

9 Barbel, 5 Chub

Fished 5-10pm. Very few fish rising. Fish 6-8 inches most on bead head pheasant tail nymph with a few taking a dark klink. Clouds of medium olives and one or two mayflies still about. Waited for an evening rise but it never occurred.

8 Trout

Lovlely valley, great place, river clear. Warm, dry day but very windy. Dry fly seemed to be the order of the day. Nothing rising small amount of fly life each run and hole look very fishy. Eventually caught on duo set up. Saw kingfishers and dippers. Total - 3 brown trout to 5 inches.

3 Trout

Well not a bad start to the new season. Fished the bottom pool as advised by Don and caught steadily from first cast.I used both feeder and float and caught well on both methods. This was the first time I have fished this short and shallow stretch of the Wye but it wont be the last. Many thanks to Don and the WUF.

15 Barbel, 13 Chub, 1 Other

Second day on river Wye. completely different to opening day. Plenty of chub between one and five pounds and some big eels(three pounds plus) that thought they were barbel taking 18mm halibut pellets. Once the sun was off the water managed two cracking barbel around the eight pound mark. All fish in really good condition. River at summer level with little colour. Not many snags in this stretch. My only niggle was the lack of swims. between the line of trees and the end of the beat only two, and those hardly cut back. Six foot nettles are not nice to walk through!

2 Barbel, 9 Chub, 4 Other

3 barbel, 6lb 13oz, 6lb 5oz and one about 4lb, plus 1 chub about 4lb. All caught in the late afternoon/early evening from the woods section on sausage pellet.
Well worth the 170 mile round trip, will be back.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

River spot on with just a touch of colour. 1st time on this beat and as the description suggests, perfect for early season sport. Fast water with some deeper parts and a lovely pool at the downstream end. Started on the feeder with pellet and corn on the hook. Caught from the off and managed 15 Chub between 3 and 4lb with loads of 8oz fish. Lost a barbel early on then had a 6lb barbel and a couple of Chub rolling meat at the lower limit. Managed a couple more Barbel in the afternoon but the evening feeding spell never really happened. Also had an Eel on Sweetcorn! Spoke to the landowner Charles who was happy to help with info and questions. A lovely beat in lovely countryside, I will be back!

3 Barbel, 15 Chub, 1 Other

Fish caught nil. Feeder fished pellets and sweet corn. Pegs hard to find, most of the stretch was unfishable as banks so overgrown and dangerous to try and access. Not accommodating for coarse angling.

WUF note: The fishery keeper has explained that Whitney Court do not have any pegs and have no plans ever to create any. There is 3 miles of fishing in open countryside which in its entirety is open grazed by livestock throughout the year. Only the left hand bank on beat 3 is fenced off to stop over grazing of the banks and there are styles and easements over the fence and river banks for the benefit of all anglers.
Contact details are on the booking confirmation paperwork and all visiting angles are invited to contact the keeper before visiting Whitney Court so that he can allocate beats and recommend pools, runs etc to suit the requirements of the individual anglers after taking into account targeted species, river heights, conditions and specific access requirements. If anglers choose not to contact the keeper then they are disadvantaged by having to find their own way around nearly 4 miles of river.

Excellent days fishing. Barbel to 9lb 5oz, chub to 4lb.

9 Barbel, 8 Chub

A lovely days sport with fish coming off all morning. No fish rising so all fish taken on nymphs.
Most fish 8 - 12" but had 2 x 15". Plenty of BIG fish seen throughout the beat but no takers today.
The wind strengthened around lunchtime and made things a little more difficult but by this time I'd had my fill and left about 2pm.

12 Trout