Feedback & Reports

No rising fish but plenty of fly life, so straight on with a nymph, fished upstream from the bridge and had a few fingerlings. Fished with a 7 " 4# and it was a good choice. This stretch would be good for a tenkara session. Started bucketing down and the river turned a very dark colour. Still a good beat for wild fish.

3 Grayling

Hard work, great day.

4 Trout

1 x trout on nymph

1 Trout

River level down. Chub everywhere, one large barbel lost at the net. Gutted

10 Chub

Only marginally fishable (with a fly), both in terms of height and colour, at about 0.9m on the Chainbridge gauge. I tried a fast-sink line and brass tube to no avail. Incidentally, the two salmon pools marked for the Canal & Rivers Trust part of this combined beat (which seem to be essentially the mill pool and its extension) are physically almost unfishable from the right bank because of heavy tree-growth, extending to where you are attempting to wade in heavy water and even over the presumed salmon lies. Some heavy pruning (some of which I attempted by hand!) is needed and would not be too great an effort.

4 barbel to 7lb and one chub 4lb+ all on pellet and feeder tactics. Meat produced only eels. River running high but dropping.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

Steady river with nice colour, about 2 feet above low summer level. Had to search for fish, mainly in top section

5 Barbel, 1 Chub

Standing on Foy Bridge bracing a cold northerly wind staring down at a fast moving river was not exactly what we were hoping for in mid September when we booked the beat a few months ago....but fishing the Wye often presents challenges and quite clearly this was going to be one of them.
Heavy feeder was the only real option and we were delighted to catch 3 Barbel and 3 Chub between us which exceeded our limited expectations.
It was also a pleasure to meet the owner of the beat Charles who clearly makes the effort to maintain this delightful venue and we look forward to visiting it again soon.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

Great 7hrs fishing amongst kingfishers and dippers.River still low and slightly coloured.People in cottage so didn,t fish area in front but went on down to catch nice grayling up to 12".Jan had 2 wbt.Went above bridge in afternoon,more grayling and a lovely marked wbt.
In all ,BJ caught 11 grayling,1 WBT.JJ caught 7 grayling ,2 WBT.on a mixture of Fiery Brown F_Fly,GH HE,Orange head ptn,White tung bead nymph with ostich herl body.
Great stretch of river ,looking forward to fish again.

Great day but fishing slow, probably due to the influx of colder water.

7 Barbel, 4 Chub, 1 Other