Feedback & Reports

Great day. Sunny and windless and in high teens after frosty start Started at 11 and had two(returned) just under a pound browns in first hour on tups indispensable and a number of rises and takes. After lunch in pub returned and had one more take and then afternoon went flat. Stayed to 6.30 but nothing moved. Really nice place to fish. Water low and very clear.

Baking hot day brought out plenty of kayaks and sent the salmon deep into the pools. The owner, Don, was there at the beginning of the day to show me the beat and highlight the best taking spots. Plenty of great advice and a devoted, passionate river man. Just one fish to report, a two and a half pound barbel on a stoats tail fly.
The deep Courtfield pools had the occasional big salmon showing and I am sure you would have tempted one with a spinner. As I only fished the fly Don kindly let me fish the Wyebank beat which is superb fly water but the bright sunshine only highlighted the beauty of the countryside and the wildlife....there was after all only so much Don could do!

First trip out this season. River very low for March. Clear skies and unseasonally warm tempratures meant fishing conditions not good!

Fly lift started early and the LDO hatch was done and dusted by around 1pm. Caught well from the off with more than 20 Trout coming to hand with fish from 6" to 17", average fish 12". Great day, lovely bit of water and well worth a visit!

River very clear and in bright sunlight. Quite a few flies hatching at 3.00 pm but no trout seen rising. Returned one nice 3/4 lb grayling caught on gold head hares ear from streamy water. Big chub seen idling in the glides. Booking very efficient - particularly at such short notice.

Another beautiful day of fishing on the Wye! Started fishing fishing around 11am working my way down from the Vanstone Pool at the top of the beat. Had several pulls on the fly from here and the long section below but no catches to report. More pulls from Rope Pool too but again nothing stuck. So what do you do...? Decided that today was not mine on the salmon so spent the rest of it stalking trout in the Ford Stream. Fantastic sport on the dry and nymph producing two stunning 1.5lbs browns. Both returned. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Nice day out but alone (my friend couldn't come). Arrived at 11.45. Rising already on. 3 BT during the first 20 min. Rising less frequent after and stop totally at 3.00PM. 4 BT in total all arround 30 to 35 cm. We left at 4.00PM. The season is on ;)

I caught one stock trout about 1.5lb in weight.

2 x trout around 10 inches each. I have to comment that I'm finding these days which begin with a frost and then go up to over 20 degrees after lunch with a bright and merciless sun illuminating every inch of the bottom of a slow-moving river, rather tough going to put it mildly. Plus there are the non-angling walkers you meet on the bank who invariably say: "What lovely weather! Must be great for fishing I suppose!" You feel such a grouch if you reply: "Absolutely not; this kind of weather is the last thing we want." Anyway, wherever you go fishing it's a chance to explore the river bed - knowledge which will come in handy sooner or later. This day was saved by a brief and rather sparse hatch of march browns after lunch. I missed about six takes and got a modest brace on spiders - Woodcock and Hare's Lug.

No fish caught. After about an hour canoes started coming down the river and all chance of catching anything disappeared! Don was very useful and helped finding the right lies etc. A lovely place to fish.

Nil return. Lots of trout seen.