Feedback & Reports

Over cast and warm on this wonderful beat. My first time here. Worked the lovely glides and flats about 500m up stream of the bridge. I x 10” WBT. Tried a dry both rusty Klinkhammer and pale yellow watery. Must have had 5 or 6 connections but landed nothing. A great day despite failing to land my bites.

Note to Booking Office. I met Peter who works at the post office. Had a coffee in their lovey cafe before I started. He was charming but mentioned that fishermen are using the post office car park at the rear. It’s a small tight car park so they would rather fisherman parked on the road about 10 M down from the post off rice. I said I would pass this info on to you.

1 Trout

The overcast and cooler weather got the fish in a feeding mood. A Life jacket deer hair caddis with a 2.5mm silver bead french nymph duo setup, fished short on a long leader worked a treat. Covering fast broken water the lightening fast hits resulted in good hook ups with this contact method. Most of the fish were of a good average size of 8" - 10" with the largest Trout at 16" and the Grayling at 15", the other was a nice sized Dace. The cork on the new rod I was using for the first time now smells like it should do.

20 Trout, 40 Grayling, 1 Other

The river was too low,

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11 Barbel in the fast flow and 1 over 10lb

11 Barbel

River very low with fishing over thick weed. A warm and bright afternoon gave way to a cloudy evening and the fishing improved accordingly. The last three hours brought all the barbel with another five or six lost. As usual on this beat most of the barbel were small, but the catch included three probably approaching the four pound mark. All on feeder and pellet.

15 Barbel

For the past couple of years whenever we visit the Wye it is either 20 feet deep or 20 inches....no doubt others have enjoyed similar challenges recently.
We made the trek up that hill and at the summit were moving about the same pace as the England team in extra time the night before but fortunately the effort was rewarded with some good fishing.
It was fairly steady all day and we are delighted to report the fish still fought hard but all recovered swiftly after given a little time rested in the landing net.
Feeder was the method and did not use too much feed in the low water conditions.

5 Barbel, 16 Chub, 3 Other

Much more successful evening than Monday.
Lots of fish rising to a dry the in the tails of pools.
Top section particularly lively.

6 Trout

2 Trout

Felt a lot better today managed five trout biggest 14". All caught on nymphs, none taken.

5 Trout