Feedback & Reports

A fantastic days fishing, 16 barbel to 10lb 13oz and 16 chub, all on pellet from the bottom end of the stretch.

15 Barbel, 16 Chub

5 and 8 inch wbt in 5 hours. Super summers day. Changed from 7ft to 5ft rod after short time. Successful fly was black emerger. Steep learning curve for me. First time on this beat, not sure where it ended on the map?

2 Trout

Fished from 4.30pm. All quiet so started with small PTN on long leader and 2nd cast produced a 14" OOS Grayling! Soon after 6pm some sporadic rises so changed to dry and during the evening success with 3 trout (10-13") and 2 further small grayling. All taken on a sedge pattern though the visible fly life was mainly black gnats, medium olives and mayflies. Larger fish taken 1lb 4oz. Home contented in the dark.

3 Trout, 3 Grayling

First time on this new beat, the banks are high and steep but access to the water is not really a problem. All fish caught on pellet and feeder tactics. I tried trotting pellets but with no luck. The owner of the beat came over to say hello and ask how we got on when we were loading the car at the end of the day. So many thanks to him for allowing us anglers access to his own little piece of heaven and also thanks to the WUF.

8 Barbel, 10 Chub

Warm and bright day. 7 in total to hand, 'twas hard work though'. Fished the entire length.

7 Trout

Lovely stretch of river, water very clear. A little low, lovely weather, lively insect life on the river, moderate mayfly hatches - regrettably only one rise seen in 4 hrs and nothing caught on dries or wets.

A difficult day with all fish caught in the morning. It became very hot and bright in the afternoon and the fish went off the feed by 11am. The barbel came from the faster water in the woods with the largest at 7lb. I was also dissappointed to lose a couple of very large fish due to snags. A couple of chub around 3lb plus eels made up the total. I suspect some rain would improve conditions.

3 Barbel, 2 Chub, 2 Other

Quite bright, low water (as far as I went) but some nice stretches. No sign of even a petit poisson but my eyesight may be failing me.

Challenging conditions. Weather lovely but lost a lot of tackle as continually snagging and had to resort to single baits instead of pellet feeder. We tried a number of swims and similar challenges. Single luncheon meat snagged less but brought eels and a chub. Late afternoon bailiff advised on the Crib swim being less snaggy and it was here I caught 6.9lbs and 7lbs barbel. Some youngsters came to swim in the swim next to me! Politely asked them not to and they apologised and went away! Lovely day, lovely place, friendly bailiff and 2 Barbel!

2 Barbel, 1 Chub, 5 Other

Back on Holme Lacey for a second day. Weather glorious again but most of the colour from yesterday had dropped out. Again we kept mobile and fished numerous swims along the whole length, BH catching 5 barbel and 11 chub and BG had 6 barbel and 15 chub again. All caught on various pellets and boillies to round off two great days fishing making the 560 mile round trip again well worth it. Finally once again a massive thank you to the Wye and Usk Foundation for providing the opportunity to fish this fabulous river.

11 Barbel, 26 Chub