Feedback & Reports

6 wbt caught and released ranging from 6-9". Fished with a tan klinkhammer with a gh ptn New Zealand style. Lots more raised and lost. This is a lovely beat, I fished the upper half as there was another rod fishing the lower half. The river was running fast and wading was extremely difficult even with a wading stick, I had a dunking after lunch!

11 brown trout caught on nymph. Good.

7 WBT. Good average size 10" - 12" (larger fish seen, lost fish est. 18").

FISHED FROM AROUND 2pm UNTILL DUSK, MANAGED TO CATCH 6 CHUB & 4 BARBEL BETWEEN US ALL TAKEN ON PELLET, EVERY FISH IN SUPERB CONITION & COLOUR. CANOEISTs NO PROBLEM AT ALL, THANKS TO IAN & ALL AT WYE&USK FOR ANOTHER ENJOYABLE DAY ON THE WYE .

A lovely days fishing with the water stilling lowering and having a "rusty" colour haze to it's usual clear colour. There were plenty of Salmon jumping(about 7 jumps heard
and 4 seen on the Coleman's beat - one missing my orange dazzler fly by 6 inches!). No catches unfortunately.

Should be better for this coming Wednesday, as long as the river continues to gain it's clarity.

Water looked good but no Salmon seen or caught. In a well known Salmon lie in Abernant stream an 18" brownie gave me a couple of seconds of uncertainty but could never do itself justice on the big rod. Shame I could never connect when trout fishing. I'll have to try Salmon flies in the future!

Fished the lower end of beat on the obvious looking barbel pegs. River was up and coloured compared to our visit a few weeks ago. Barbel feed well at the start of the day but as the colour dropped out the action slowed. We finished the day with 15 barbel and 3 chub all taken on pellets. JT was landing one of his chub and it was hit by a huge pike that jumped clear out of the water to claim its prize. It must have been a big fish as I heard the splash from a long way down stream.

An excellent day's fishing with fourteen barbel to just under 10lbs all from just two swims.

3 small barbel.

The stars were aligned perfectly for this day on the Wye: great drive up; lovely B&B (Old Vicarage) with a great breakfast; weather perfect (light cloud; slight wind); river falling after a spate. Twenty-one brown trout, mostly 10" and above; and one 18" and possibly bigger (it ran across the river stripping line from the reel at an amazing pace: it thought it was a salmon). Eleven grayling, mostly c. 16" and two of 18". In total, 32 lovely fish, all carefully returned. All taken on a traditional Adams (dry); size 14. After difficult days on the Wye in previous years, this has reminded me just how productive the upper Wye can be (or has the fishing improved?). My favourite river.