Feedback & Reports

We fished one of the last swims to the right. The only swim that comfortably fitted 2 anglers. The river is deepest at that point and quite fast flowing.
It was an overcast day with some light rain now and then so conditions seemed perfect. We fished for 9 hours. We had an early 8lb barbel and a nice 3 1/2 lb chub. We had one more chub around the same size lunch time and then the river switched off! Nothing for the next 6 hours. It does appear that the fish like feeding early on this river. My advice would be make an early start and make the most of your morning. Also the banks are steep so wear some grippy shoes.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Change of plans meant a short morning session fishing alone with stretch to myself. Lost fish first cast, then proceeded to lose lots of tackle to snags trying to find fish in four different swims. One eel the only return. Not the best session ever.

1 Other

Good river conditions but fresh rain needed to liven the water up. All fish taken on pellet, we fished from noon til 21.00 so all in all more fish would have a bonus but a good day. A lovely stretch of water with fabulous wildlife, a large Grass Snake swam right past me!

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

Very enjoyable day with fish up to 8lb 6oz.

11 Barbel

River looked perfect and we were expecting a good day but for some reason the river had switched off and 9 hours fishing brought us just 3 bites and 3 small barbel. The chub had completely disappeared.

3 Barbel

We fished the very last pegs down stream in this section well the 3rd to last and the last as the other one had a wasp nest there not good company. it was over cast and the river looked perfect we had bites through the day and a very even catch I had 11 barbel to 9lb and Mike had 12 barbel to 8.5lb a good day all fish fell to 4mm pellet feeder with 12mm halibut pellet on the hook tried the meat but the chub were all over it so the barbel did not get a look in, we both fished in the deepest part of our pegs. My only complaint was these pegs have steep steps and the angler who had fished here before me using red groundbait obviously did not want to go up them when he wanted a wee so I had the strong sweet smell of urine for the day thanks for that, well worth the walk for the fishing though a very good section of the river a lot of salmon showing out of the water as well.

23 Barbel, 9 Chub

River had risen several feet over night and was coloured. Could hold bottom with 90 grm feeders and had intermittent action during the day on pellets.

6 Barbel, 7 Chub

Beautiful beat with excellent access. Fished the field upstream of the car parking spot. Downstream would be much harder to access. We had action throughout the day with barbel from 3 to 8lb plus a couple of chub around a pound and a half. One of the latter was seen bashing fry and was caught on a small silver lure. 5 fish each but the padawan beat the master by almost 7 pounds. Usual tactics of pellets or similar behind a feeder.

8 Barbel, 2 Chub

What an end to another great four days on the Wye. The best barbel today was 8.06 and chub were to about 3.08 (estimated). All fish were caught on feeder and different pellet combinations and at times the bites came within seconds of casting in. There were also spells when the bites dried up and we had to wait a couple of hours before the feeding resumed.

36 Barbel, 11 Chub

All fish were caught using pellet and feeder. Best barbel was 8.04 and chub were up to just under 4lb. The river level dropped slightly during the day.

26 Barbel, 8 Chub