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What a disappointment.

Living locally to Hereford I have been lucky to fish a number of the wild streams. And whilst I always try to find the positive, this is without doubt the worst beat I have fished.

I caveat with saying I only fished from the bottom of the beat to halfway, but this is an awful stretch. For starters the entry point to the beat is not maintained and with high barbed wire fencing I was forced to find a small tributary and follow its course into the main stretch. I spent a good 45 minutes trying to access the beat.

The beat it self is high sided and fenced with no exit points until the halfway mark. The river has several large obstacles which can’t be climbed over as the river is too deep. Forcing you over barbed wire. The beat is simply not maintained and I must say one more than one occasion I feared for my safety.

Had this been my first experiences I would have not returned to the wild streams. I strongly advise giving this a miss. For those that have only experienced this beat I would encourage you to try some others as this is, I am pleased to say, not the norm.

1 Trout

2 Chub

Float fished , meat pellet and corn , chub from half lb to approx 4lb

8 Chub

2 Trout

Again I was lucky . The only one there . So because lack of swims . And severity of slopes of swims , I fished same swim as a few days ago . With not such a good day . But I would suspect that’s because everybody fished it because they had no choice.
But I did catch a few 5 chub to 2-1/2 lbs and 3 eels to 1-1/2 lbs

5 Chub, 3 Other

4 Chub

Very tough going. We tried everything. No barbel just a few chub. Lovely to be back on the river again though.

20 Chub

There were two anglers on the beat today.

6 Barbel, 2 Chub

Lovely beat,saw lots of wildlife...waiting for the rain.

First of three days back on the wye begins here at holme lacy 3 and no better place to begin all three of us catching some lovely chub and barbel excellent start hopefully the next two will be as good
SG 75 chub and 3 berbel MH 65 chub SM 60 chub.

3 Barbel, 200 Chub