Feedback & Reports

Fished from 11:30am - 2:30pm. Steep banks and high, dense vegetation extending a fair way from the river made accessing this beat extremely difficult. I only managed to enter the river in about half a dozen places and wading a decent distance upstream was also hard due to deep pools.
I ended up catching 2 small trout and a grayling from a long riffle using a gold bead GRHE, with 2 bigger trout caught later on cdc dry flies. I caught one of around 11 inches that I spotted making splashy rises in the head of a pool upstream of the road and another one of a similar size that had made a gentle rise above one of the weirs. Lots of fry seen in the margins.

4 Trout, 1 Grayling

4 trout 1/2 - 3/4 lb all on nymph. Fished to 9.30pm, no real rise. Big fish in pools top end of beat. A pleasure to fish.

4 Trout

Fantastic days fishing for the three of us never fished Wye before - beyond our expectations. All fish caught on double hair rigged pellet and cage feeder. All fish caught downstream of pump which ran most of the day. Thanks Wye and Usk.

10 Barbel, 10 Chub

Superb day's fishing in excellent conditions. The water was crystal clear and in good flow and the weather was warm and sunny with some cloud. All fish were taken on a beaded hare's ear nymph fished upstrean. The three trout were small bit in great condition and the grayling ranged from tiny to a few ounces but nonetheless great fun to catch. Lovely fishing at Lyepole and well with a visit.

3 Trout, 10 Grayling

Very hard day, started to catch around 4pm in afternoon.

8 Trout

Fished from midday through to 8.30pm and had another very enjoyable day on this stretch. After a slowish afternoon, which was expected with the weather, the fish started to feed well around 5pm. Honours roughly even with one catch of 5 barbel and 5 chub and another of 3 barbel and 5 chub. All caught on feeder tactics using a variety of the usual baits with the best barbel reaching 8lbs and a cracking chub of 5lb 13 topping the chub caught. Many thanks!

8 Barbel, 10 Chub

The river was very low but the rain on Friday must have stirred a few fish up because I lost what I think was a grilse (or very big trout) in the morning and annoyed a much larger resident fish (quite red) in the early evening.
On both occasions I was fishing a shrimp pattern size 12 in in Gravelly Pool.
A promising start to my season.

2 Trout

Weather lovely and fished at top of fishery. Swims very nice but a bit snaggy. Caught 3 Barbel in the morning/lunchtime 7lbs, 8.8lbs, 5lbs and a chub right at the end of the day. A few Eels to luncheon meat as well.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub, 5 Other

First visit to the mighty Wye this season, weather was beautiful, river nice height with a touch of colour. We fished quite a few swims from the croys down to the bottom end which, as mentioned by previous posters has changed quite a bit. We caught from most swims with BH catching 36 chub and 3 barbel and BG trailing in with 11 chub and 4 barbel. A fantastic days fishing with various pellets and boillies catching all the fish.

7 Barbel, 47 Chub

Nice day. River low but with some colour. Never really found big shoals of fish but caught steadily near to Luggsmouth itself.

12 Barbel, 11 Chub