Feedback & Reports

Fished morning - very little rising 1 wbt 8" on gold head ptn, 1 wbt 12" (taken) on pink shrimp. We do need some serious rain to flush through rivers.

Fished for 3 hours in the morning and caught two Grayling on the tail of the spout that runs into the Bathing Pool. I have found this section to be a good fish holding spot, especially when the water is low and the weather hot. Caught fish using a size 16 Sawyers Pheasant Tail nymph. The method employed was casting up into to the spout and allowing the nymph to return witht he current. Very busy fishing, but a good technique which works. Find that anything larger than a size 14 hook is not so good especially in clear water. This is a lovely beat and a delight to have time upon, recommended.

Excellent directions, a nice beat with easy access to the water. Very quiet during the day with a few small chub. Things improved towards the evening with four barbel and a small trout all to pellets and feeder. Very nice day - thank you very much.

Excellent day. Fished various swims and had plenty of Chub plus 10 Barbel up to around 7.5lb. Used large pellet on the hook and smaller pellet in the feeder. Thanks very much for a very enjoyable day.

Two rods caught 3 barbel 5lb, 7lb14ozs, 9lb2ozs. All fish were caught from van stone pegs using meat and pellets fished up against streamer weed. Very hot day put fish off feeding until cloud cover at 4pm. Fantastic scenery and a great place to fish. Definitely will come back again.

8 barbel and a chub from swims at the top and bottom of the fishery. All on the usual pellet and feeder approach. First visit to this beat. The location really lovely (all the Wye beats are, of course, but particularly good scenery here). Much of the beat is heavily weeded and inaccessible - one can imagine many barbel tucked away in the weed. River was still carrying some colour and it took some work to find weed-free spots to place a bait in the downstream swims.

The previous comment about strong tackle is well made - you do have to bully your fish away from the weed. Some of my fish had mouth marks suggesting that they had already been caught once or more since the start of the season - unfortunately this is becoming a common feature in the heavily fished swims throughout the Wye. There were big fish showing in three spots throughout the day. My first assumption was salmon, but after a carp swam under my rod top I began to wonder....

1 x 10lb sea-liced Salmon - released.

Since Sugwas has become available to the W&U, the reports lead you to believe that this beat has exceptional potential for the coarse angler, I can now advise that to be true!
The four members of the WBCaAC (Wye Barbel Catchers and Aspirers Club) set off even earlier than normal this time around as we were itching to spend as much time as possible by the waters side. This meant alarms at 02:00 hrs in order to arrive in time for first light. Arriving in the ‘Orchard’ car parking area on first viewing it was apparent that it may be difficult to fish this top end due to the lack of water. After much discussion amongst the four after perusal of the swims available, we opted to drive to the other two areas of parking further down stream. ‘Two Ton Trev’ and ‘Ton Up Tony’ surveyed the lowest section whilst ‘Bailiff Russ’ and ‘Jilted John’ (John the only ‘aspirer’ left in the party) cast their eyes over the middle section. It was the middle section that took the fancy of all and as Russ and John were in position first so had the first dibs on swims. John was placed in the swim most suited to his comfort and set about organising his ‘Tackle Shop’ of equipment (shame he forgot the milk!) and Russ settled into the swim below between a pair of trees. Trev and Tony arrived on the scene soon after and promptly settled on two swims below that of Russ. We broke at lunchtime, for a civilised glass of cabernet sauvignon and celebrated the loss of John’s Wye barbus barbus virginity!
We fished until approx 20:30 hrs with a return for the 4 rods of 47 chub to 5lb, 9 Barbel to 8lb and probably the catch of the day falling to Tony of a 2.8 lb Perch! The majority of the barbel were taken on pellet fished over hemp although the four did catch fish on 8 different baits.
It was a long journey home, especially for Trev and Tony in their BMW (Barbelless Men’s Wheels).
On a serious note: We would like to take this opportunity to thank the W&U for their normal professionalism with special thanks to Adam for his patience in talking to Trevor! We will be back later in the year albeit under our new guise of WBCC (since we no longer have any aspirers).

Thank you!

2 Salmon caught in Station Stream by JH on v small Cascade Double at 5.45am and 6.45 a.m. By 9 a.m. it was very hot and bright with numbers of salmon moving much reduced. Surprised not to get a fish or 2 out of Cottage Pool later - full of fish, most fresh but definitely not in the taking mood. By the early eve the water was noticeably tepid.

Great day, returned 18 trout and missed another dozen or so. 6 to 10 inches, mostly 8/9 inches, all on para. olive or adams. River was clear but fresh after the rains, sporadic olives hatching through the day. Hard work fishing this mountain stream but marvellous rewards!!