Feedback & Reports

First visit to the Wye. Was due to fish with my father who unfortunately could not come, so decided to make a weekend trip with my girlfriend. We were due to fish Holme Lacey on the Friday but she couldnt get the time off so started our trip on Caradoc first thing Saturday morning. We arrived to find the river around 4 to 5 ft up and very coloured. Due to the recent wet weather the track looked impassable so a long walk was on the cards. Decided to use the day as a bit of a recce as we were booked on again on the Sunday. Walked down stream and settled on a swim in the trees before the bridge that was large enough for the two of us. The swim produced 4 barbel to 7lbs in the pouring rain. The swim then went quiet, so we moved back upstream of the hut to another large swim where we settled in for the afternoon. By now the earlier rain had turned the water a brick red colour and i wasnt too confident of more action. I was wrong and we finished the day with another 8 barbel from the new swim to 7lb 6oz. All fish in good condition and caught on pellet and boilie baits on the feeder and straight lead.

4 barbel. River running high, fast and nicely coloured.
120gm feeder (but it still swung round to the inside) with 8mm pellets or elips on the hook. Fished from the second croy and found it better to sit and wait for bites, I only fished from mid-day to 5pm so probably not too bad. Well I enjoyed it anyway.

River up about 35cm from our previous day on Sugwas which was no surprise after the heavy rain over night. Having not fished this beat before it took a little while to settle and two rods had 2 Barbel each on pellet feeder using a mixture of hook baits.
Will be back again in the future and hopefully then it will be dry enough to take the car up the track.

7 Barbel on hallibut pellet. 1 Chub same bait.

A first visit for my brother and I. The river had obviously receded by 7 or 8ft but a farmworker informed us that it was still 5ft up!. We found two nice looking slacks behind two promentories midway between the hut and the suspension bridge. Both swims proved to be tackle graveyards and feeder and lead losses were alarming. We have booked a return and hope for lower and clear water so that we might see just what we were casting into. I stuck with it for 9 barbel to about 8lbs whilst S C ventured down into the trees for 4 barbel of a smilar size. All taken on large elips pellets and feeder tactics. A word of caution, whilst the bank conditions were fine and allowed us to drive to the bridge in the morning, it was very different in the evening. No rain fell all day but the use of two tractors and a landrover in the field made the area in front of the gate onto the road almost impassable.

River high and fast ,could only fish the margins.
7 barbel between us. Hard work, but enjoyable.

We arrived about 12.30 to heavy rain and a brown rising river, but still looked fishable. We tried a couple of swims for half an hour for one barbel. Then a passing dog walker warned us that the access road was beginning to flood and so it proved, water pouring off the road had also turned the track down to the river into a stream. We decided not to wait for it to get any worse and left at 2.00. A pity because I'm sure we'd have had a few more. Still waiting for Summer but not holding our breath.

A day when sitting it out in one swim seemed to work better than roving. The 2 rods who sat it out landed 3 barbel each, late in the day (5-7.5lbs). The 2 rovers managed one barbel between us - but 17 chub! River remained coloured all day though still dropping. However, the inclement weather meant the beat was much quieter than it generally is on a Sunday.

9 barbel between us, biggest 8lb. River up and pushing. All caught on spicy pellets upstream of the hut. Don't leave the track in the wet weather as you can get the car stuck!!

River in near flood Saturday morning - up 2ft on Friday when the water was deep brown and hammering through, including trees and dead sheep floating by. We fished early Satuday through to Monday afternoon. Weather brightend on Sunday and river dropped 4ft and slowed down. 25 barbel to 9lb 4ozs mainly 5's and 6's, 5 fat bronze chub, and 2 eels. Pellet, bollies and meat, 5oz swimfeeders in the slack. Not many canoes, great scenary, buzzards, cuckoos and a very low flying military plane. Locals told us the flow is controlled by a dam sluice which releases water when its near full. We were fortunate that the weather changed on Sunday morning and we saw plenty of warm sunshine.