Feedback & Reports

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

Although only a short beat it has plenty to go at, all fish caught on pellet and ground bait feeder.

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

River quite low and clear but rained all day which probably explained the lack of canoes! A lovely place to sit and enjoy the beautiful scenery in spite of the rain. A short stretch of river but enough for 2 anglers to share. Had 3 nice chub up to just under 4lb from the deeper pool at the bottom of the fishery on the left bank, and 3 chub averaging 2-3lb and a small barbel of 4lb from mid-river half way along the right bank as dusk fell. Fish came to a mixture of pellet, luncheon meat or boilie fished on a straight lead.

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

Arrived at river at 9am to find it coloured and pushing through quite fast. Perfect looking conditions, humid, overcast and colour.
First barbel to mates rod, first bite at 15:15. Beautifully conditioned fish of exacty 9lb. This was followed by his second barbel, 5lb at 19:00. Both caught on garlic flavoured meat. As for me, first and only bite at 19:15 which came in a downpour and was missed. Fished until dark trying pellets of all types. Wye dropped a little then came back up a bit and we are at a loss as to why we had so few bites,on a river that looked spot on.
I suppose that's what keeps us coming back.
Cheers Graham.

2 Barbel

River high and coloured, though falling. Weather mild but not too bright. Seemed perfect, but despite trying three swims could catch only chub until 7.30 pm when the barbel eventually came on to feed in my right bank swim not far from bridge. Large tackle-robbing snag in swim opposite!

3 Barbel, 5 Chub

Only fished for a hour as had to go home.

Fished for a couple of hours in the evening with pellets. River low but carrying a little colour.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Having fished this small stretch twice before I fancied a few but now the river was low and this is a shallow beat with no depth, very windy and rainy so didn't float fish, I had a solitary Chub on pellet and CH blanked. Looking forward to a return in September.

1 Chub

Caught 9 chub 1 barbel all on feeder and pellet tactics
Fishing left hand bank in the furthest swim

1 Barbel, 9 Chub