Feedback & Reports

River still fining down from high levels of previous week, so good height and colour. Strong winds overnight meant a lot of leaves in the river compared to day before.
Bites very difficult to come by in field below wood. Rang the changes with maggots, pellets and meat in each swim. Quick check of the beats catch reports on this website convinced me to sit it out below woodland and it paid off. Bites came in last two hours, mainly to meat. At about 8lbs, my biggest barbel for a few years too. Even caught a swimfeeder to replace the one I lost to a snag today!

1 Trout, 2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Great afternoon fishing on this lovely stretch at The Creel on the Wye. Weather was good, 14c with sunny spells albeit with the odd shower. 6 chub with 5 between 3 to 5 lb and 2 barbel. Also, lost a barbel and 2 Chub. Mostly to pellet.

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

Lost a pike, caught an eel.

1 Other

Many Salmon showing. Two Otters swam past. The One Grayling I caught might possibly be the smallest ever caught. Beautiful autumn colours.

1 Grayling

Two chub 3lb and 4lb approx. Both to meat and meat feeder, beat 4.

2 Chub

River in good order, not too many leaves coming down. Plenty of action from chub all day. Nothing on pellets, but using feeder and a bunch of maggots they were on it as soon as the bait hit the water. Caught a few fish trotting maggots too.
Hook pulled out of a very big fish (typical), but no other sign of barbel. A change of swim may have located one or two.

1 Trout, 15 Chub

River looked good expected better but still enjoyed it, barbel about 7lb chub just over a pound a piece.

Fished the bottom end and disappointed with the swims - for about 200 yards only one swim safe to fish and even that was treacherous - very long landing net pole essential and even then a struggle to land fish and not fall in on most pegs I saw.

I’m going to take a stake and rope next outing please all be very careful especially if fishing alone

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Difficult first things but improved in the afternoon as fish started to feed. Barbel caught last light.

3 Barbel, 116 Chub

a pike on meat and sweetcorn!

5 Barbel, 4 Chub, 1 Pike

Very hard day still a few nice fish.
Very dangerous after all the overnight rain both went over a few times other than that it is a really nice stretch of river and have already booked up for the summer.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub