Feedback & Reports

No fish. very cold.

Cold, getting colder, but good to be out.

My brother and I ventured down to White House, though I was the only one to wet a line. River slighly up, not too coloured - strong NE wind, blowing upstream combined with the general temperature made for a cold few hours.
Given the temperatures, I decided not to go for the usual pellet approach and instead fished a smallish feeder with maggots. Had a bite a cast, but only managed to hook and land two dace. Speed of reaction was somewhat impaired by wrestling with the rather cumbersome gloves required to keep my hands warm!
My brother had departed about mid-day, after a sleep in the car - the prospect of sitting in the warm, watching the rugby seemed a much better alternative and I left about 1.30pm.
Despite the conditions it was really nice to be back out on the Wye again, watching the activity in the fields opposite and the Buzzards wheeling about up above. Bring on the summer!

2 Other

A very cold, steel grey skied day with a nasty chill wind made it a tad dour. The water had risen a couple of nights earlier from 11'' to 1' 4'' and it carried some coulour. The fly didn't do much and I tried a spinner for an hour and that did less. The beat notes are quite right about loosing the odd spinner in the Tree Corner pool :-)
All in all a good day,and some of the runs and pools here are tremendous fly water but in the end it was just too raw.

Beautiful stretch of river which showed potential for a future visit. However, this time the cold weather was against us. Sadly no fish but with the remains of a nice sized barbel left on the croy by an otter we will certainly be back in the summer.

Did not fish - too cold

14lb on 2" Yellow belly spinner

1 Salmon

Fished for five hours around the viaduct. I fished bread, the others feedered maggot. Nil return. Could a post code be attached to river directions? Many thanks again.

This was the second of a four venue end of season trip to the Wye, and with the water temperature dropping rapidly, we felt today was our last chance of a barbel. We had just two bites between us, resulting in one barbel landed and another lost due to a hook pull. We tried different baits and rigs, but the bites both came to the feeder and pellet approach.

1 Barbel

No fish. Very cold.