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An absolutely wonderful beat on the moor. The river was quite low on this upper beat, and the only trout were holding in deep plunge pools of at least six feet in depth. Until the river rises, don't bother with other features. Beautiful small brownies with aggressive, slashing takes on sedge dries. Possibly the prettiest place I've ever fished.

7 Trout

Ok so today was a good example of how the fishing experience could be improved. I think more up to date detailed info on the beat is a good starter and for different water levels. So the water was really low which really ruled out most of the top half of the beat which can only really be accessed from going over the bridge and round the house. The lower half looked great and is a big long channel. I clink and dinked it and rose one big trout but that was it. I found one bit of fast deeper water and lost a trout with the euro rod.

I clink and dinked much of the upper section with no interest. Returning to the euro set up I found two bubble lines on the other side to the house with some deeper water and managed one fantastic grayling and a lovely brown. I lost two more. Wading is definitely tricky even with the water low and I used my wading staff as the persistent rain meant I couldn’t see the big rocks. The wading on the lower beat is also tricky - ridged undulating very slippery bedrock. Also the lower beat suits left handers better from a casting perspective.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Late afternoon evening session Barbel 7lb chub from 3lb 8oz up to 4lb 6oz the other was a perch of 1lb 9oz feeder fished luncheon meat was the method.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub, 1 Other

Unfortunately with the low river levels finding accessible swims in large parts of the beat was difficult and with the persistent rain during the day the few access points became rather treacherous. I opted to don the waders and get with my quarry. I spent a few hours trotting meat and corn around the crib to no avail before moving to the faster water downstream of the suspension bridge. Feeding hemp and trotting corn soon resulted in some chub. After pre-baiting a fast run opposite the croy from the beach with hemp I switched to feeder and pellet in the afternoon. First cast resulted in a nice barbel and this was followed by 6 more to about 8lb and half a dozen chub. Bites were on a regular basis throughout the afternoon. Difficult conditions, rather wet but always a joy to be fishing the Wye.

7 Barbel, 8 Chub

Second day on beat, fished in the woods again and into the fast water and peg running out of the the fast water. Different day today regards weather torrential rain most of the day but did not stop the fishing. Chub bites straight away on pellet and meat, landed my first Wye barbel on the bomb and my second a little later on the drop again on meat. 15 chub myself on feeder or bomb meat, pellet and Bollie. My Dad continued on pellet feeder and pellet band 4 barbel and lost five in the rocks biggest 8.5lb with 10 chub different sizes. Amazing two day fishing ending a great week on the Wye, very special place and great to be back!

6 Barbel, 25 Chub

3 Barbel, 4 Chub

Had a very good day on this great beat,amazing what a difference the cloud cover makes,started around mid day and both found fish straight away.fish caught on swim feeder or PVA bag and pellet hookbait,,some nice fish with the biggest ones at 9 lbs 9 oz and 9 lbs 8 oz.Looking forward to returning here

11 Barbel

First time here and really liked it though we didn’t catch. The rivers were Low as we have had no rain. Tried wet and dry fly. Suited nymph really.
Stunning place, idyllic narrow river. Great parking very close to the different fishing areas. Will definitely return

1 Chub

Did not fish as weather turned raining heavy all day as said before this beat needs to give you some idea of the swims we all used to wild wye fishing and had ropes but as we said its hard to see where the swims are from the banks