Feedback & Reports

I prefer this beat with the water at least a couple of foot up from current levels, when the top swims usually fish very well. In any event with anglers occupying swims on the opposite bank at the top end, we had to settle for the lower end of the fishery, where although there are barbel in most swims, they do not appear in great numbers. This proved to be the case today, and we ended up with only one barbel between us at 7lb 5oz.

P.C. had a great first day fishing Courtfield catching a brace of fresh salmon at 15lbs and 24.5lbs (38.5") Sturdy scale, the twenty a beautiful full bodied fish. There is a picture of this one in the net on www.lowerwyefishing.com. 2 good kelts also caught made this a pretty productive day's fishing. Numerous jack pike were something of a nuisance but still kept the line tight!

Saw no fish, caught no fish, not even any bites, very strange day on the last day of the season.

First time on the Wye and always difficult to get to grips with a new stretch but I managed 4 Chub all around 3-4lb from Rock Pool and further upstream.
Beautiful days fishing and worth staying on until dusk as bites increased then. Will be back.

5 x trout 7-13 inches, 10 x grayling 8-14 inches, on North Country spiders. A warmish day with a long, slow large dark olive hatch. Water now rather low.

A cold, grey wintery March day with little signs of insect life and even less signs of fish except for some scales left on the bank by a local predator. My first visit to this fishery and I will be back when the weather is warmer and the life, both insect and fishy, are little more interested.

First time on this stretch, thanks to Adam for his advice. Great stretch, water low and clear, fished feeder with hemp and maggot to catch 17 Chub to 4lb 13oz and a single 7LB 4OZ Barbel. Morning was difficult, all fish came in a 3 hour period from 3pm.

River was low and lightly coloured. We fished the upper part of the beat for a few hours for just one small chub.
We then moved to lower half and caught 21 barbel, mostly in the 6 to 8 lb range with the largest at 9lb, plus a few chub. We then moved back up to the upper part for the last couple of hours but only managed 1 more barbel, ending up with 22 barbel in total, pretty much equally shared between us. Additionally D caught 2 decent chub which we weighed at 5.04 and 5.08 at "last knockings". A fantastic day for the time of year - will keep us going until June!

1 x Chub - 4lb on breadflake. Some damage by Pike suspected.

Always enjoy my infrequent trips to the Wye and my first visit on this water was no exception. Its a bit daunting after negotiating the steep walk down to the river and then becoming like a mountain goat to climb down to the waters edge. As I was on my own and never saw another person all day it was very wise to be extremely careful. My first choice swim in the first part of the stretch quickly produced a couple of medium sized chub and a lost barbel but despite many changes of gear the swim just died. I moved up the first field into steady water and here found some barbel willing to feed and took 6 fish up to 7.2.0. Thought I was going to bag up but then this swim also switched off. Should have moved again but I was worn out with all the climbing up and down. Catching method was straight lead, 10mm Ellipse pellet .with 4 mm feed in a PVA bag. River lower than I would have liked and quite clear which probably explained the switch off when you caught a few. Saw several salmon leaping which is a good sign. A good day, well worth the 100 mile trip. This section not recommended for the unhealthy. Although getting on in years I keep fairly fit but the haul back up the steep slope had me really puffing and the day after some pretty sore thighs from hauling me and kit up what appeared to be a mountain. Thanks WUF. Good service. Online booking was straight forward Roll on June 16th. Hope we have plenty of rain.