Feedback & Reports

First time on this beat and only second time on the Wye. Fished feeder and halibut Pellet from 9am to 6pm. Fished bottom peg on left hand bank looking downstream until early afternoon. Just the one fish Barbel 5lb 8oz. Moved to top 'beach' beat on opposite bank in afternoon but no luck there.

1 Barbel

Nice days fishing plenty of small chub and dace to keep us busy ... I put down 20 other, but to be honest lost count!!! all barbel were small beauties around the pound mark. Nearly all fish came on maggot feeder as struggled to get bites on pellet..

5 Trout, 1 Grayling, 5 Barbel, 6 Chub, 20 Other

River slowly rising, fish mainly caught on corn, barbel up to 8.5lb and also down to 1.5lb. Chub up to 4lb

13 Barbel, 5 Chub

1st day at Foy. River low and clear, so knew it would be a maggot day. Took 15 mins to get the fish feeding, then caught all day, Barbel after Barbel.
They were only small, up to about 1.5 pounds along with some nice chub up to 2.5 pounds, one brown trout about 3 pounds and a few nice dace. A great day.
2nd day the same beat. Had used a lot of my maggots on the 1st day so I got the yellow peril out and bang, Barbel after Barbel this time a bit bigger with a few in the 3 to 4lb range. Not so many chub but still plenty of nice dace. All in all a great 2 days fishing. Thanks, IJ.

1 Trout, 25 Barbel, 18 Chub, 20 Other

Lovely bit of water, Caught all 12 chub and 1 Barbel on the float. Chub ranged from 2lb to 3.5lb. The Barbel was just over a pound. Really enjoyed it on a very picturesque part of the Wye.

1 Barbel, 12 Chub

Low clear water so I opted for a 12ft #8 Switch rod with a short sink tip on floating line and a double #12 Ally’s Shrimp at the end of the 9ft tapered leader, [classic Sewin set-up]. Glad I did as the 6lb cock fish, taken mid-stream just below the bridge, was far more fun on the lighter gear.
There were others moving up through the faster water in the morning but as the cloud dispersed they seemed to hold back in the deeper sections of The Creel downstream.
I think that’s me done for this season so thanks to everyone at WUF for all your help and see you next year..

1 Salmon

Had a great day on a wonderfull river, only 4 swims but this was expected on such a short stretch. Very powerful water that is about 6 feet deep, ideally to suited to this time of the year and we were helped that river had benefited from rain earlier in the week and had a touch of colour.
Fished from 9am to 4pm and caught from the 1st cast to the last cast of the day. Started with Chub most in the 2 to 3LB range but a number of smaller Chub caught on a big stick then as day went on had more Barbel, bit misleading saying we had 35, as about 20 were about a pound. But the rest were between 3 and 5LB. Also caught a number of very large Dace up to 12 ounce.
Had to change to a Waggler early afternoon as wind became very difficult but still caught. A shame we had to leave early as the bigger fish were starting to come on the feed.

33 Barbel, 60 Chub, 20 Other

Fished the afternoon evening and caught plenty of good size Chub on a slowly rising river after some heavy rain in the morning and overnight. Unfortunately, I couldn't tempt the Barbel with pellet baits offered!

7 Chub

River high but falling. CD fished meat and hemp in a feeder while DF fished pellet on straight ledger rig. Three chub fell to the feeder and one to the pellet. CD was getting small twitchy bites so changed to a single swan shot ledger rig and touch legered. This produced a further three chub and some eels. Best chub were about three and a half pounds. A lovely bit of river.

7 Chub, 3 Other

River at high summer level, strong flow and good colour, weather overcast until 16.00, then sunny periods. Fishing from 15.00 until dusk. Barbel came steadily, and as seems usual on this beat, several below the pound mark. Lost by far the biggest fish after 7 or 8 minutes to a hook pull. Nevertheless another very rewarding and enjoyable day on the Wye. All fish to pellet/feeder tactics.

10 Barbel, 1 Chub