Feedback & Reports

I fished the last swim at the very end of the beat. Started on the feeder fishing the crease on the edge of the slack water. I had a few small chub around 6oz. After 3 hours of watching a motionless quivertip I got the trotting rod out and had 2 decent chub one over 4lb. The 2 guys upstream didnt appear to be fairing much better although I did see a barbel come out. The highlight of the day was a kingfisher perched on my rod. Beware if you dont like cattle. They are in the field and are very curious surrounding my car and licking the paint for whatever reason.

6 Chub

Nice beat with plenty of swims available. The opposite bank had a lot of anglers and a working party going on. All fish on swim feeder and pellets. Many thanks.

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

A beautiful stretch of water! We arrived early and chose our spot, I struggled until about 1600 catching 4 nice chub on pellet, then after 4pm the Barbel began showing, all taken on pellet. JT had a fantastic day trotting with a float with pellet. 34 Chub later......
Thanks to the Wye and Usk.

4 Barbel, 38 Chub

River running very low and best swims were those with flow and good weed growth. Rolling meat proved effective and it was great fun wading out to fish this method. A hot day with a lot of canoe traffic and swimmers.

6 Barbel, 7 Chub

Very disappointing to pay £45 each for the 3 of us
when there is 7 fisherman on the opposite bank paying a fraction of the price and fishing the best swims. Won't be paying that again. 3 barbell, 2 chub on pellet.

Nice quiet day's fishing resulting in 5 barbel to 7.5lb, taken on the usual pellet baits. River is very clear and low now. However, river looked beautiful at first light due to the 8 degree temperature resulting in columns of mist across the water - more like a September morning.

5 Barbel

Fished 100 metres downstream of the bridge on the beach.
This rod caught 16 barbel all on 8 mm halibut pellets and feeders. Most of the fish ranged from 6 - 8lb. Another rod fished 100 metres beyond that and had the same result using the same method.
Longer hook lengths seemed to be the call! Before we found these, one of the guys fancied making his own swim only to find he was sitting on a otters nest which hissed at him. The other fisherman blanked and if you asked him, he would not go back, thought he had a good swim but couldn't avoid the weed.

32 Barbel, 5 Chub

Despite very bright and clear conditions, floatfished pellet produced better results than previous day.

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

Lovely beat, with excellent access. Very bright and hot conditions, but still managed to winkle out a few good chub on mini boilies.

3 Chub

River low and very clear. Overcast but bright all day. Ledgered pellet, boilie, luncheon meat and sweetcorn. Only one missed bite late in the day.