Feedback & Reports

Sunny and showery
By 3pm the water started colouring so was time to head home

2 Trout

Arrived to find river very low with blanked weed and hardly any flow. Tried several swims that I know produces Barbel but only managed a PB for blanket weed. It's in serious need of rain to get flowing again. Pub lunch at the Inn on the Wye ready for change of tactics for the afternoon. Rolling meat on a gravel run produced 11 Barbel, best being 5lb. A good result in the end.

11 Barbel

Second day fishing the Foy Bridge beat, tried the beach area again, had 1 Chub, a few bites but again, a lot of weed, moved back up towards the bridge trying a few swims but no bites, decided to fish opposite bank for the last few hours and started to catch a few fish, biggest Chub was 6lb on the dot, stunning fish. Caught 5 Barbel and lost around 4 more due to snags, also caught several Chub in between the Barbel. Cracking fishing!
Met the Bailiff and his dogs on the evening doing his rounds along the bank, he kindly took a pic for me of a Barbel with Foy Bridge in the backdrop. Fished the cage feeder and pellet. Will be back for sure!

5 Barbel, 9 Chub

River still low but in lovely condition
Fish caught on feeder,pellet and meat in a nice steady low as most of beat to shallow
I must say been to a few Wye and usk beats over the last year or so and never before have the beats been in such state.On this beat alone,there was two of us and over the entire beat,which is quite long there was really only 3/4 pegs to fish
There was trees fallen into pegs not cleared ,over grown brambles everywhere
The bottom part of the river you couldn’t even get to,it was all fenced off and you couldn’t even get to it so it wasn’t for the lack of trying
This beat not a shadow of what it was like in years gone by
I love wild fishing but some of the beats now are beyond a joke

2 Barbel, 10 Chub

1 Barbel

4 Trout

Windy day made it hard for the fly.
Not very good for fly fishing with the trees so close to the water. Could only fish the shallow end and wade out a few meters.
Zero fish, non rising or showing

Didn’t fish
Looked like a wash off on the webcam.

Fished the morning until lunchtime. 9 chub to a respectable weight. 1 barbel for my mate.

1 Barbel, 9 Chub

Very weedy and very busy with river traffic being Sunday. The only place to get some consistent fishing was the far channel on the island swim. Two small chublets on the float. Will be back though

2 Chub