Feedback & Reports

A lovely afternoon on the Wye, with the river in perfect condition and mild, increasingly cloudy weather. I enjoyed watching a late small tortoiseshell butterfly in the initial sunshine and there was then a period of a couple of hours which brought three barbel and the chub. I had to wait until the last cast of the evening to catch the biggest barbel. All the fish fell to meat bait and feeder tactics.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

Grayling we’re hard to come by but numbers of trout were high

12 Trout, 2 Grayling

First time fishing this stretch of the Wye. Weather was overcast and the river was largely clear.
Our aim was for Grayling so we parked upstream of the bridge in the field near the rock pool, but finding canoeists already there we relocated downstream towards the fishing hut. By the time we'd got to the hut and tackled up the canoe team had drifted downstream and where still in front of us, so a quick walk downstream to the Rectory Pool/Rectory Pot section. I hadn't realised just how deep this section would be and trotting through the swim close in at 11ft depth I still wasn't dragging bottom (Waders beware.) We didn't manage to locate the grayling today but still caught 6 perfect trout on trotted maggot that were unhooked and released straight from the net. 4 small dace completed the day for us. One other note, as the canoeists drifted further downstream through the rectory pot they acknowledged us, kept well out of our way on the far bank and were very polite - no issues for us today. Great water WAU we'll definitely be back for more.

6 Trout, 4 Other

A lot of leaves, literally millions over two days, made fishing difficult. Very disappointed to find the first two swims downstream of the church had fallen trees which rendered them unfishable. Given these swims have the deeper, steadier flow they are very different from the rest of the stretch and it would have been nice to be able to access them. The trees had clearly been in the water some time.

8 Trout, 1 Grayling

Water clear and cold. Fish caught trotting maggots in the area upstream of the bridge. Grayling and oos brown trout to 10-12 inches. Other were dace. All fish returned.

3 Trout, 6 Grayling, 2 Other

CT - 2 Barbel and 3 chub - the Barbel were both between 3.5 and 5.00lbs, the Chub were about 2 to 3lbs. AW - 1 Chub - a really nice Chub of about 4.5lbs .

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

River at 0.38 falling on the Peterchurch gauge. Overcast with a gusty wind. Fished a ptn below a klinkhammer through the whole beat, except for the deep pools where I resorted to a single heavy nymph, without success.
1 grayling at 11 inches, 2 trout at 6 and 8 inches. All caught on the ptn, didn't see a single fish rise.
Did bounce another couple of fish.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

Day's trotting for grayling. Caught one small grayling and one trout parr. Lots of leaves in the river.

1 Grayling