Feedback & Reports

Lovely day on a beautiful fishery. Some large chub caught nearly every cast in the morning, however had a sleep break around the afternoon and upon returning at 1700 couldn’t get even a feeder knock. Walked whole length of fishery to find a barbel but again was outwitted.

14 Chub

2 Trout

6 Trout

The beat is VERY overgrown and access is really tricky. Im 74 and found myself sliding down to the water on my bum and then having to crawl back up the bank afterwards. The path along the bank has been ploughed up and planted so I had to push through head-high rape to reach the top pool. I never got there. Once in the water (there is no possibility to bank fish) the wading was was not difficult but a lot of the beat is inaccessible due to deep pools and vertical banks. It's jungle fishing. I fished for eight hours, using nymphs at first as nothing was showing on the surface. In the afternoon a few mayflies were hatching and I started getting takes on dry flies. I only landed one but was very pleased with myself.

1 Trout

4 Chub

First time on this beat and a frustrating but informative day which has reset me for summer Wye fishing. Bad start on the Croys up the top snagging up more times than not. Moved to the very bottom which looks beautiful with loads tree far bank cover over a deeper glide but tricky to fish with fast flow through the middle which makes wading essential with the best approach being heavy floats or bouncing baits through, or some gear much heavier than I brought to hold across. One lost chub down there so a move right up the top to fish the slower water which produced one chub on GB feeder and meat mid river, nothing across on hemp feeder.
JC who I met there caught well on light bomb and single meat baits (separate report), so a different approach is cooking for my return.

1 Chub

2 Grayling

4 from the bottom, 4 from the middle, 2 from the top.....no barbel.

11 Chub, 1 Other

Having fished most of this beat yesterday my expectations for today were modest but the river had other ideas. Despite the warmth of the day not many bugs were coming off, so I l searched the deeper runs and chutes with nymphs, not as pretty as dries but effective nonetheless. I caught steadily all the way up river, about twenty fish in all, maybe more, I wasn’t counting. One fish from an easily walked-past little chute produced the week’s highlight, a flawless trout of 1lb 6oz I first took in the amber water for a big chub or stray barbel. Any fish after that were pure bonus. A great day to cap a great week.

20 Trout

4 Chub