Feedback & Reports

With the river so low we were not expecting to much, however with the overcast conditions and rain moving in later in the afternoon, we did manage to find some fish.
The barbel all came in two short spells, where as the Chub came all day long from multiple swims.
Sugwas is a great beat with lots of options as long as you are prepared to work a little.
Thanks Wye and Usk Foundation.

6 Barbel, 19 Chub, 1 Other

Probably not the best time to come, but the only window available for me before the season end. Advised by a guy from the farm I walked past the burgeoning balsam to the lower end of the beat where "the boys" would normally fish in low water conditions. I was greeted by some spectacular aerobatic displays by some pretty impressive fish, one in particular will stay in my mind for years to come! But alas, connecting with these bruisers proved another matter. With no discernible hatch and exhausting my repertoire/fly selection I moved up stream to more rises, constant throughout the day bar the showers late afternoon/early evening. I just could not connect with anything, even trying the French leader set up (more work needed with that methinks!). Ok, the conditions weren't the best but this must have been the most frustrating day I have had fishing, and I've had a few. A blank to be recorded and a retaliatory re-booking next season! Thanks once again to all at WUF.

Weather was overcast all day with occasional showers. Water level was low after recent dry period.
Very little happening in the morning with the only bites from the midges. Improved after lunch with the 5 trout taken on ledgered worm.

5 Trout

I had not fished this beat before and it was a pleasure to fish here. The river was very clear with a nice flow to it. A few barbel were caught along with some chub, all to pellet on the feeder. The canoes got a little tedious with little respect to anyone fishing! Many thanks to Don for allowing this stretch to be fished.

3 Barbel, 5 Chub

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.