Feedback & Reports

For our 2nd day at sugwas we entered the middle section to fish the slightly deeper water and had a much better day. Fish had moved in following the slightly cooler conditions. Swim access apart from one was again difficult apart from one swim where mick had 4 barbel , 3 on float and maggot, 1 on bomb and meat. Feeder was not effective over the 2 days. John and I just about managed to access 2 swims upstream and shared 26 chub with chublets, dace, small roach, trout and one perch on the float - maggot or caster - great sport. It was great to watch chub on the far bank coming up for hawthorn berries? Dropping from the trees. Many of John’s chub( to 4 lb) had the red berries in their throats. This is a lovely stretch of the Wye that we feel privileged to fish but I fear that it will be inaccessible without some management as trees are encroaching in the ‘old’ swims. I doubt that if we were a party of 4 that we would all have been able to fish

3 Trout, 4 Barbel, 23 Chub, 20 Other

A mild day and overcast day with odd sunny intervals, 0.27 on RoW gauge and a 12.9 degrees water temp. Very clear but with a good flow throughout the beat. Fished very hard though, with 3 bites between the 4 of us. 3 barbel hooked but only one banked at 8.06 - one snagged, one line break. GB and particle feeders tried as well as straight lead, PVA bags and loose pellets. Wind too gusty to fish the float without wading to mid river.

1 Barbel

weather, and river ;looked spot on but sadly no fish seen or caught

all looked great , started in Mill pool, down to Rectory then a nice walk up to the rock pool nothing caught but a good fish seen in Mill pool

fished Rectory and Mill Pool, with no joy or sightings .

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

Day 3. 1 chub 3.03 and 1 barbel 8.13 today. 1 barbel lost... cut off on the rocks. Over the 3 days I've lost 6 feeders and 4 leads..on the rocks due to debris pulling and moving them on the bottom. Strong mainline and hook lengths required. 3 of the barbel had other hooks with line in their mouths far too fine approx 6lb line. I got cut off on 35lb braid!! Gotta say fantastic sport in this river and the obstacles make it worthy adversary. Back next year ?

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Pellet and ground bait feeder, boilies or pellet as bait.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

Fished both in the trees and down in the field hooked and lost one barbel to a snag mid river.

Nothing caught and no bites, used both wet and dry fly