Feedback & Reports

Big inquisitive cows, river to its bones, no fish rising to the fly or intrested in any nymphs. Otherwise quite a pleasant day.

Plenty of rising fish but the wind made the fishing quite difficult. Tried nymph and dry fly with all the fish being caught on a size 18 F fly. Grayling 8 inches and the trout all between 8-10 inches.

10 Trout, 1 Grayling

Another great trip but with the ridiculous journey I have to make, didn't manage to start fishing until 8.30am. Walked to top end of beat to fish off the croy. Savage bite third cast which resulted in a large Barbel being hooked but lost. Then the sun got above the tree line and it was obvious that the fishing in the low clear water would be difficult.
Moved around 12.30pm to one of the swims with deeper (slightly) water.
First Barbel landed at around 3.15pm (7lb 1oz) then quiet until 6pm when bites started to come regularly. Three landed (7lb 10oz, 7lb 12oz and 8lb 3oz) and two lost. All to Halibut Pellet/feeder in amongst the streamer weed.
Minnows a pain in the butt, munching their way through the pellets at an alarming rate!
As mentioned in another report if you are staying until dusk take a torch as the path through the woods is step and dark!

4 Barbel

Water level had subsided and cleared from yesterday. Lots of small fish rising but untouchable. One 10" brown trout caught (and released) on CDC nymph in a riffle. River was full of fry.

1 Trout

4 Rainbows taken, biggest 1 3/4 pound. All taken on a small silver mepps spinner in the upper layers. Very windy with "white horses" on the reservoir.

4 Trout

Difficult day, rain but river very low, fished very hard and roamed the beat. Caught 4 chub and an eel between us. A few Salmon jumping.

4 Chub, 1 Other

A great location, easy to find and good parking in Gilberts farm yard.
The river Lugg was at a good level, it was raining in the morning so used a medium sink with north country spiders. I had one decent Grayling and then once the sun came out I went with a floating line and used a dry green wells and got 2 nice brown trout.
I would certainly fish this location again.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

A very low and clear river hardly good conditions for barbel fishing. However with the river being like this for most of the season it doesn't take long to build a picture of where the fish are. Getting the baiting and position of the bait is of great importance. We didn't arrive until 12.45pm and it didn't take long before J landed a beautiful 10lb 4oz barbel. Weighed of course. Following on from this the fish fed really well and between them they continued to catch chub and barbel. None of the large chub put in an appearance the largest was 4lbs 4oz.
T did land a very good barbel of 9lbs 11oz. A few other 8lbers and high 7lbers were caught and all weighed. This was our very first time on the river Wye barbel fishing and we had a great day. A big thanks to Don and the Wye & Usk Foundation.

11 Barbel, 6 Chub

All fish 6-7lb. Good condition. Fished late afternoon into evening and enjoyed a quiet session watching a family of kingfishers in between fishing!

3 Barbel

Very nice stretch of water. An enjoyable few hours regardless of my failure to catch.