Feedback & Reports

Arrived around midday and selected one of the last pegs that was fishable.

River was low and approx 4ft deep in the middle. Second chuck and the rod wrapped around for a 7lb barbel, an hour later another was in the landing net at 5lb. Both taken on garlic pellet over ground bait feeder.

A few chub taken over the course of the afternoon and then we both lost barbel towards the end of the session.

First time on the Wye and I must say I was quite disappointed with this beat despite it being 2/3rds of a mile in length. There are literally three swims you can fish from and two of those would be treacherous in wet weather. Not for the feint hearted or angler with mobility issues.

We stayed at The Annexe (Stay by the Wye) in Hole in the Wall which I can highly recommend.

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

1 Trout, 1 Barbel, 5 Chub

Couple of hours on the lower best to start, had a couple (10" & 12") and lost a smaller one.
Then a few hours on the upper beat which is very scenic and a lovely stretch of water. No fish landed there although a couple lost including what looked a good fish in one of the deeper pools.
Only the odd sporadic rise here and there so mainly fished a nymph.

2 Trout

2 Rainbow both really health good sizes both over 3lb I would guess given their size.

2 Trout

Really enjoyable day but fish hard to come by, fished beat 2 & 4 float fished flake and touch ledgered mini boilies.

4 Chub

Blanked.

Last minute 2 hours this evening 2 barbel 6 chub several around the 4lb mark one old warrior probably go 6lb in winter thought it was a barbel stayed mid river for a while.
Cracking 2 hours

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

Buckland may be a great beat when conditions are right but today it was quite hard going. There aren’t too many features and the riffles are mainly fairly shallow and gravelly. But I scratched around and found some fish and shared a pool with an otter on two occasions. The fish I did catch were generally smallish with a handful over the pound and one at 2lb 1 oz. A good day then, not a great day.

16 Trout

Overcast, humid, drizzly, river a nice colour..but save for a couple of chub the morning was uneventful...odd. Then the sun came out, I expected the worst but from then I caught on-and-off for the rest of the day til I ran out of bait.

All barbel on the float. Chub on everything, anywhere

4 Barbel, 40 Chub