Feedback & Reports

20 plus grayling up to half a pound - 4 out of season very small brown trout, all on dries. Very dark and dank day with low clear water.
Pollution (milk?) reported to owner coming down a side stream half way through the day. A pure white solution anyway. Good service from the owner.

WUF note: please report any suspected polution immediately to the EA Hotline on 0800 807060.

The (only) good news when clocks change is Charles P allows trotting here for grayling, Thank You Charles! Arrived at 09.00 to find frost on ground and line froze to rod rings until 10.30 but managed one good 17inch grayling from below The Church. Then moved slowly upstream consistantly catching 9 to 16inch fish on double maggot size 12 hook below over-shotted chubber type float from old 10ft full action light Garrick kevlar trotting rod and centre-pin.
Light feeding maggots between casts and whilst unhooking fish as these grayling quickly drop downstream when loose feed stops. They will take at 40yards and move up right under the rod tip with careful wading and feeding.
Stopped counting after 20 grayling caught, final total would have been in higher 30s. All quality stunningly coloured fish.
One and half pints of maggots will do for 6 hours angling. Recommend use double maggot on minimum 12 to avoid deep hooking when fish feeding fast and heavy, be fair to the fish!
This beat has stunning scenery and I would recommend a look in the white church. This water offers first class trotting with steady glides over gravel and relativly easy wading and I have in past used 16ft trotting rod from bankside as there are plenty of suitable places in the middle section, only proviso is to break rod down to carry through trees.
Thanks also to W&U Foundation, until waters such as these were opend up "coarse tactics" days such as this were only a dream!

My first time on this beat and the weather could best be described as 'dreich'. Despite this, having read the recent catch reports, I was hopeful of a good day. But, it wasn't quite to be - I fished the beat near the hut and ended up with just the one barbel of approximately 4lb. Maybe a more mobile approach would have paid off. I started the day off with a visit to Woodys in Hereford - a proper tackle shop, lots of friendly advice - definitely worth a detour if you're visiting the Wye.

The first real day where it's felt like the winter grayling season is in full flow. The air temperature was a crisp -2degC when we arrived at 8am, coupled with a covering of frost, made everything look spectacular. A great part of the world.

20 fish (a mix of 14 grayling and 6 trout) between the four rods and on a mixture of dries and bugs. They didn't give themselves up easily, no doubt due to the heavy rain the day or so prior. Those fishing today/early week will be in for a treat!

A great beat, and a great day's fishing.

6 Barbel caught. Levels dropping slightly and fishing i.e. holding bottom etc quite easy. All fish caught from half way down the beat on pellet. Water was very cold.

Had a nice day on the Courtfield beat with lots of sun but the river was high and fast and the only catch was two eels.
One was about 3lb though, he had tried to tack my half Mackerel dead bait on my pike rod, but spat it out just before landing.
Will have another go when the river is lower. I always catch Barbel when fishing on the Wye. I knew they were there, just could not get them to feed that day.

Great day on a beautiful stretch of water. 8 grayling upto 1.5lb and a 1lb WBT. All fish bar one caught on dries.

It was a beautiful morning, very misty & still with a light frost. The river had come up 2-3 inches overnight. A very slow start and with only 1 barbel of 10lb 3oz caught within the first 3 hours we decided to move further up to the top of Vanstone. This proved as unfruitful as the morning with no further barbel showing. However lots of quality dace fell to maggot. Not the fishing quantity of the previous day, but yet again the stunning surroundings and wildlife made up for this. All barbel caught in our 2 days were of pristine condition & super hard fighters....great sport!! Can't wait to come back. Once again, well done WUF!

Unfortunately no fish caught, but excellent & friendly advice from the owner of the fishery, will definitely book more fishing on same & other of your waters. Thanks for the very prompt & efficient booking. Best regards pww (Andy). P.S. Have a wonderful Chistmas.

Just one barbel caught on pellet and one nice pike taken on deadbait, river level dropping down well during the day, fantastic scenery, wildlife, and the colour change Another nice day on Wye, thanks Colin & WUF staff for your excellent service, roll on next weekend!