Feedback & Reports

Fished fly down the beat twice. Couple of plucks but think it was chub. Nice fly water.

The weather had changed for this day and overcast all day. The barbel again fed best towards the end of the day. No need to be there at the crack of dawn. It was good to see different year classes of barbel coming through. Lots of canoes again had a very very rude canoe guide deliberately go through our lines. As an angling guide I've seen him plenty of times before on the river and I will be having a word next time I see him. Normally he is good but don't know what happened this time. I did say that he was being very unprofessional when all the other canoes on the day caused us no problems.
Fish were caught on pellet and feeder tactics. Other than the canoe guide incident we had some great banter with the canoes.

6 Barbel

3 x browns off upper beat, 1 very nice hen fish just over the pound caught from just below the Sewage Pool on a black pennel. Lower part of the beat fairly quiet on the day I fished.

3 Trout

Lovely afternoon on the Wye. Lots of salmon crashing out along the length. Fished a couple of different swims and were rewarded with a couple of average chub and barbel on feeder methods for our efforts.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

A really successful day, first for a while, with 3 nice wild brownies with the biggest at over 2lbs. An early start, heavy cloud and cooler weather all conspired to help.

3 Trout

The river was going down at 10-11" and, thankfully, still weather, or light winds at worst, prevailed. It was sunny all day as well but, with little wind, and sedges, midge and a few small olives/PWs for company off and on all day, the fish duly obliged in spite of high light levels. On arrival at 8 a.m. the fish were rising below and upstream of The New House itself and, as we savoured the scene, and hoped for a good day, an otter made its way up the river disturbing the fourteen goosanders that were cruising downstream. A good omen? As a salmon rolled just upstream of the Clettwr confluence, we started catching trout and grayling, some risers, some not. Rises continued intermittently until 5 p. m. when activity ceased and we drew stumps (long after those at the Trent Bridge recovery of the Ashes earlier in the day!). About 25% of the grayling caught were of 12 - 13" with the majority 8-10", and the best trout a couple of fish of 14". Still lots of liced trout and grayling. Fish were taken on hare's ear emergers, Grayling Steel Blue, Grizzle Elk Hair Caddis, and and a CDC and Elk caddis - the EH Caddis rose lots of non-rising fish during the afternoon, with several also missed or long-distance released! It was a lovely day in a lovely place with lots of kingfishers for company, with heron, tree-creeper, buzzard and kite adding to the fauna. Oh, and we also had the rather unusual appearance at Ty Newydd of the exceedingly rare "large bare-a**sed, beachmaster" on the far side, seen intermittently rolling in the river or sunning itself on the bank. Not a shy species at all, it seemed. Mankinis are just soooo naff, eh!! In spite of this rare sighting, Glyn fished on, undaunted, catching more of the undoubtedly, much more attractive "Ladies" of the Stream! A "cracking" day all round!

12 Trout, 44 Grayling

SG & SM from Swindon & Cirencester. Yet another great day on the Wye. This beat looks the part and without doubt, is the part. Beautiful stretch, well kept and very accessible.
That does not mean it's easy to get around. To get into the wooded area, it gave us both a bloody good workout. This however, was rewarded with some fantastic fishing. I don't remember ever seeing so many quality chub. Unfortunately, they were just out of reach and would not move up to us.
We both used groundbait and pellet feeders with elips pellets on the hook for SM, and garlic and hemp pellet on hook for SG, (who would of thought).
SG had 13 barbel at the top of the lucky stone croy. SM had 6 barbel just below the lucky stone croy, then moved to top field and had another 6 on the top croy.
We both loved Fownhope 5 and will most definitely be back.
Very warm sunny day that seem to bring out every canoe on the Wye. We had a few parties of blokes coming down, obviously tanked up. These fine gentlemen totally dissregarded our position on the river and just spread themselves right across the river. I saw 3 gents during the day, standing up in the boats, urinating, oblivious to any other persons. We all pay for the right to use this beautiful place only to be ruined by the few who don't care. I watched as one of these gents just emptied his litter into the river. Crisp bag and beers cans, once again, he was another one oblivious to my calls to stop. To be honest, I did note that the red boats were letting most of the idiots in them. Someone will get physically hurt soon if this does not get better control. Children and families will see what I saw today and I don't believe that is right. The Wye should be used, not abused. I love to canoe aswell, but these people should not be allowed. More control needed from these companies rather than just take any idiots money.
We still had a great day as usual, so a big thanks to the W&U again. See you soon, SM.

25 Barbel, 15 Chub

Methods used: wet & dry fly. River conditions: river mid level. Some trout moving but only one take.

Arrived to bright, hot conditions at a very easily accesible section. Took a while to walk the stretch and easily find all the cut out swims. Opted to fish the upper part of the beat close to shed, deeper water under your rod tips here. Conditions weren't favourable for barbell but as always with the Wye valley, who cares!! Finished the day with 3 barbel and 3 chub, all on meat. Will be back to explore more beats very soon. Thanku WUF.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub, 1 Other

Despite low level and sunny weather, my son, who was guesting with me, managed a hen fish of around 13lb from the Heirag on a red and black flying 'c'. As an added bonus we caught 8 good trout to 1lb plus. Great day for both of us.

1 Salmon, 8 Trout