Feedback & Reports

Very hot blazing sunshine made fishing difficult, location and bait choice important. Sweetcorn worked for me and I had 6 barbel and 1 chub including 2 lovely baby barbel - future looks good.

6 Barbel, 2 Chub

Fished 2pm til 9:30pm. Scorching hot, no wind or breeze to take the edge off the heat. Patchy during the day with Chub taken on the float and Barbel on pellet in the evening.
River quite low. Lovely beat, will return.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

We have now fished 4 of the Wye & Usk venues, all of them in stunning surroundings. Unfortunately the weather was against us being the hottest week this year and the river its lowest for 4 years. We all had our 1st blank today, it was rock hard.
But we will be back.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Usual pellet method on a feeder from lunch until late evening seeking barbel. No show - we both blanked sadly. It was very hot. A very beautiful part of the river and unlike previous visitors we felt there were sufficient swims. A fisherman on the opposite bank caught 23 barbel (or so he said!) but in the morning from 9am until 12pm which, considering the heat was the better decision.

5 barbel, 1 Chub and 1 Eel on pellet and meat.

5 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

Nothing happened all morning and afternoon so B decided to make about 5 new swims! The water level was low and the sun scorching. In the evening the fishing picked up, all the fish were caught on halibuts with feeders. The fish seem to be under the banks and most fish were caught close in.

7 Barbel, 3 Chub

A tough day with a lot of canoe activity especially in the morning. Couldn't locate the fish until later in the afternoon when a few Barbel each, including one double, saved the day. Also caught a few nice Chub on the float although the elusive float caught Barbel eluded us. Swims, which had been obviously well prepared last season, were heavily overgrown in places.

11 Barbel, 4 Chub

Another big day. 9 barbel, all of 8lbs to 11lbs. I fished from 14.30pm to 10pm. Thanks WUF

9 Barbel