Feedback & Reports

A wonderful afternoon to end the season! River in good condition, low enough to access most swims comfortably and still falling with a bit of colour. Weather fine and reasonably warm. The barbel were feeding throughout this session and I eventually finished with 11, nearly all in the 5-7 lb range on halibut pellet.

11 Barbel

2 barbel of about 5lb each to end the season. Back on June 16th!

2 Barbel

River still quite cold but found a few feeding today, biggest 7.5lb.

3 Barbel

River fining off and fished the last day of the season in bright conditions. Just one jack between the two of us, on a popped up dead, but a pleasant day to see the season out on a first visit, on spec, to this beat.

1 Pike

Caught 7 barbel (best 11lb 2oz) and 3 chub (best 6lb+). All fish caught on pellet feeder except biggest chub on cheese paste and came between 2pm and 7pm.

7 Barbel, 3 Chub

Very good day on beautiful Wye for both of us. We had bites coming all day, it looks like high pressure and strong sun didn't have an impact on fish. Interestingly, pellets didn't work at all! We lost few fish in the snags, there are many of them there.
Perfect day!

11 Barbel, 4 Chub

12 Trout

2 x 8oz grayling, 3lb chub and 4lb 6oz barbel all on feeder. Also lost 2 bigger barbel.

2 Grayling, 1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Difficult conditions with biting upstream wind and bright sunny skies. Satisfied overall with 5 barbel to the two of us but having selfishly jumped into the banker swim my fishing companion must be disappointed with his return.

5 Barbel

A mixed experience. I fished from Abervan to beyond Merthyr Vale and back. The river is clear, board, wadeable over stony ground, and the trout are of a good size and fight wonderfully. There was a profusion of bird and insect life even in mid March (lovely to see white throated dippers, nut hatch, and grey wagtails). The water was cold, gin clear, and I had bright sunshine all day so it's no surprise that I caught three of my four fish (all between 30 and 40cm) once the shadows grew long. I kept just one and it was delicious eating. The downside was the extent of the fly tipping, which on this stretch at least is truly horrendous. It was a dispiriting shaddow on an otherwise wonderful trip.

4 Trout