Feedback & Reports

An interesting day! Fish were not in the usual areas so we had to go hunting. Managed to find two nice barbel. Had to make a swift escape as the heavens opened up in order to get out of the bottom field only to be confronted by the whole herd of cows blocking our exit on the road out of the field and some angry looking bulls. When they eventually moved on,after about an hour, the path out was very slippy and we only just managed to get the cars out. Future anglers should be aware of this if it is wet.

2 Barbel

A lot of weed debris made fishing the lead and feeder tricky. A switch to the float produced one barbel and one lost fish, while a move to the slower water upstream made the weed less of a problem

3 Barbel

Difficult conditions with low water in the usual swims and the floating weed menace. Just the odd bite to keep us on our toes and and very pleasant and peaceful day on the lovely river Wye. Pellets and feeder brought us some success.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

A very tough day on this beat. Water was, as expected, very low and with the sun out overhead and lots of weed coming through it was not possible to fish the usual areas. We did manage to find some fish but conditions meant we could only catch a couple of chub.

2 Chub

Started on the float for only a couple of small chub, had a walk and threw in a few pellets here and there and immediately barbel came onto them, fed a few swims and left them, returned and as usual as soon as a line went in they disappeared, you could see them come back but just couldn't find a way of catching them.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Caught very late again on pellets the barbel were small but an eel about 1.5 lbs was also caught.

8 Barbel, 1 Other

Barbel caught from amongst the weed off the concrete. 2 eels one of which was large 3 to 4lb.
Pump going as usual ! Level very low as expected. all fish were rested and swam off strongly.

4 Barbel, 2 Other

For The second day on this beat my 13yr old
Son who is fishing mad, fished the wye for the first time, still a lot of weed coming down prevented us from keeping a bait in the water for enough time for a bite!! So a Change of plan was needed, fortunately we had invested in some waders, otherwise I’m sure we wouldn’t have caught, it enabled us to get to some bushes wear we could trott some bread flake and I managed to winkle out 3 chub biggest 3lb 15oz and my lad lost 2 chub! Not a beat I would return to I’m afraid, not many accessible swims at the top
end either. On a plus for you salmon and trout fisherman, plenty of salmon and trout jumping, roll on Thomas Wood tomorrow

3 Chub

First day of two at this stretch , some rain the day before which is obviously much needed, gave me some hope, unfortunately virtually impossible to fish as so much weed coming through, Couldn’t keep a bait on the bottom for more than a minute, very frustrating, so nothing caught

Not able to fish river too low. Not informed by wye and usk.wasted day