Feedback & Reports

Great day, 11 barbel to 8.10lb and 6 chub all over 4lb, best 4.08lb and one eel. Pellet feeder doing the best. River coloured and pushing a little making the floating weed a pain but fishable. Many thanks WUF.

11 Barbel, 6 Chub, 1 Other

Barbel about 6lb, Chub up to a pound - river slightly down compared to when we came last year. All fish taken on sweetcorn.

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

River looked perfect but very difficult and no rising fish or visible hatch except a few BWO.

3 Trout, 3 Grayling, 7 Other

Perfect conditions but no rising fish. Most fish to induced dry fly speculative casting. Lots of tugs on nymph so plenty of fish. All smallish 6-10oz. Lack of fly life on both beats a concern.

4 Trout, 4 Grayling, 8 Other

Despite the rain of the weekend, fishing with dry fly was possible. I fished the beat from 9am-4pm. Fly of the day was a little hairwing sedge size 16. The biggest trout (7) were about 14 inches or so. Thank you Wye & Usk Foundation, specially thanks to Allyson for her help.

23 Trout

Fished above the orchard to avoid cows in the lower beat, was disappointed with number of swims available, approximately 4 plus the cattle drink swim. Could not believe the amount of rubbish left everywhere. Cleaned up a fair amount, including cutlery for pot noodles as I walked the bank. Some staked swims are completely inaccessible and for £22 per day we should be at least have more options. Could definitely do with a "working party" to make the fishery a better place. Enough of the whinging, back to the fishing. Between us we had 1 barbel 7lb and 8 chub, all on lamprey pellet either feeder fished or straight legered with pva bags. Fished better in the evening from around 5 o'clock onwards. Lovely surroundings to enjoy a day on the Wye and will hopefully be back to do it all again.

WUF note - This beat is booked to have access improvement work and swims opened up this week.

1 Barbel, 8 Chub

Fished for two hours and had two barbel in the 5-6 pound bracket. Lots of canoeists and families picnicing on the beach - but they were all very pleasant.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

4 Barbel

First visit to this beat after a meeting in Cwmbran. The water was reasonably clear and the river flowing well after the weekend storms. I thought it was going to be difficult when the first fish seen rejected my ptn and then a fingerling attached itself to my hook. However, a fine 10" wbt took a deeply sunk spider and made my day. I then managed to miss two more fish before a heavy rain storm drove me back to the car. I shall return.

1 Trout