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Actually booked for salmon fishing and fished for a couple of hours to practice my casting as it's been a while. None caught but did see two jumping. Switched to coarse fishing and caught 1 chub 4.1/4 Lbs and one barbel 5.1/2 Lbs both in perfect condition caught on hemp and spicy sausage pellets .

We arrived to the river to find it was in good condition. 1 x 4lbs barbel and 1 x 3lbs chub in the morning. My friend K.T. had 8 barbel between 3 to 7lbs at around 3pm. I had another 7 barbel after 6pm, the last 4 fish over 7lbs.
A great day. I got broken by something really big, our guess was a big carp. A lovely strech of the Wye, hard going but best early morning and during the last 2 hours when the big barbel came out on a feeding frenzy. We will be back.

We fished the cattle field downstream from the Orchard.
The weather was warm with sunny periods and the river was fairly low and clear. A beautiful stretch of water. Between the 2 of us we caught 8 barbel ranging from 5 to 8 pounds. All fish were hard fighting and in pristine condition.
We will return next year to try another beat of this superb river. Some pegs on this beat need better access - You need to be fit and agile !!

River 1 foot up and falling. The three of us started off fishing on the 'beach' across to the deeper water, but all that came from that was a 6lb barbel for me. Dad wandered downstream rolling meat and had one chub of 2lb. we all moved to the top of the beat to the slower, deeper water and fished swims that looked well used. Merv lost a barbel and had a chub bite, while I didn't have a touch. Dad had one barbel of 6lb, 2/3 of the way across. Both barbel were taken on halibut pellet with a feeder of mixed pellet.

It's worth noting that the opposite bank to this beat seems very heavily fished. there were several anglers up and down the stretch throughout the day and the swims looked very heavily worn and the barbel I caught had a couple of old wounds in it's mouth. I would suggest if you're looking for a session on virgin barbel, this probably isn't the beat for you. It also sows a seed of doubt in your mind as to whether these fish are getting tackle-shy.

Great day but took off after 5pm with one swim producing 5 Barbel to 11lb 8oz. Others incl a 10 with 6,7 and 8lb fish caught.
Many thanks to Don the owner for showing us the swims etc. v. helpful Gent!

Blanked. First time to this beat. Imagine we could have done with 6" more water and a lot less sunshine. Didn't see or touch any salmon unfortunately. Both really enjoyed our day in stunning surroundings though. Plenty of fishing to go at and I think you do need to make the most of both banks.

10 grayling (including 3 of 16"). 3 out season brownies 9" on gold head GRHE, black klinkhammer and caddis nymph. A great days fishing.

It was our first time on this beat although we fished last year on the adjacent Leen. River was a good height and clear but no sign of the sun and only saw 2 rises all day. PC caught a 42 cm (16.5in ) grayling on a pink shrimp close in under a bush but that was our only bite other than innumerable leaves and twigs. Probably return in the New Year when hopefully, the river will have been flushed out.

Fishing in my t-shirt for the afternoon, who would have thought so in Oct. Not a salmon seen or touched though. My first year salmon fishing though so the learning curve is steep. As ever a really nice stretch with some quality runs. Lots of scouting done for next time. Did catch 6 trout though, one had me wondering for a second or two.

First time on this fishery parked in the orchard car park at the top end of the fishery and walked the whole beat. I decided I was parked in the wrong place and drove to the parking lay by at the lower end of the fishery.The river is a bit deeper here and in these low water conditions looked more likely. It is a really nice place to be at times I felt I was in a nature reserve with ducks, swans, cows, all sorts of birds including kingfishers and later on bats and owls putting in an appearance! The available fishing swims were a bit limited and more could be created with a bit of tree cutting work. Really struggled to catch in the low and clear conditions losing a feeder a cast in my chosen but obviously rocky swim! Decided to do a bit of roving using 4aaa shot swinging round under the bushes using luncheon meat for bait. This did the trick and finished with 4 Chub weights..3, 3.5, 3.5 and 2lb. 2 Barbel weights 3, 5.5lb. I was enjoying myself at the end!