Feedback & Reports

2 anglers block booked the beat. Fished well all morning and early afternoon. Good sized barbel and chub at the start (5lb chub and 7lb barbel), with a smaller stamp of barbel every cast in the afternoon. We left at 4pm, but no doubt the later hours would have seen even more fish landed.

Only comment is the advertised well maintained and accessible bank is no more - a lot of fallen trees and wading was required (or a scramble down a steep bank from the footpath to get to the pool) - not one for the less able bodied or over loaded angler.

25 Barbel, 5 Chub

3 brown trout caught and released

3 Trout

Arrived at the river mid morning and it was looking good! Trotting as usual the main flow and had plenty of small chub. However the barbel decided to show and caught 3 between 5/7 lb all on the stick float. Fantastic sport as I always say 1 on the stick is worth 20 on the lead. Also managed a chub 4lb. Once again thank you Team and the river Wye for a wonderful days fishing. God bless the queen..

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Unfortunately I’ve had to head home early as a bit of a problem so didn’t get to fish today. Took a look before I drove home though and looks like a lovely stretch with a few rises around 8am. Very heavy bushes along bank made access a bit difficult but as I knew I wasn’t fishing I probably gave up a bit easy.
In the words of the great Arnie ‘I’ll be back’

River had a reasonable flow although expect much lower levels presented easier wading than usual.
One nice big fish caught early on to F-fly from deep channel on lower part of beat. That promised a productive day’s fishing however it did not materialise. Gusty wind? Bright sunshine? Gin clear water? Poor skills? Who knows?

1 Grayling

3 Trout, 5 Grayling

Lovely stretch of river in an incredible setting.

Hard work to find the fish but once I did I caught consistently.

Constant trickle of feed seemed to work well.

Access to river was excellent with parking behind your swims.

6 Barbel, 12 Chub

My first visit to this stretch. I followed the instruction to contact the owner in the days prior to my booking, but received no reply or call back. I decided to concentrate on fishing the left bank and started on beats 4 and 5. the river was in good condition, but the bank was largely unfishable due to the overgrowth on beat 4 and much of beat 5 until the bends with the shallow banks and gravel beaches which might fish better with more water. One chub came on beat 5 fishing the channel under the opposite bank. I then thought I would take a look upstream at beats 1 and 2 staying with the left bank. The access point to beat 1 was inaccessible owing to road works. The access point at the pump house for beat 2 was unlocked and didn't look like anyone has used it for years. The bank was unfishable due to overgrowth. There was also no obvious place to park. I went back to beat 3 which by contrast was both accessible and very pleasant. I only had one other chub but there was much more activity late in the day. I will concentrate my effort on beat three next time. This beat needs work clearing vegetation to create a few more swims and improve access.

2 Chub

No fish caught, no sign of any fish .

1 Trout, 1 Grayling