Feedback & Reports

Fished from 2pm til about 6pm when darkness came. Caster and hemp accounted for many small fish for first hour then we went to meat on swim feeder or direct. Fabulous sport. Fished very close to bank. Barbel around 6-8lb, chub from 2-4lb. Beautiful condition fish. The barbel pulled so hard and go off like a train on the first run. Heart stopping stuff on a scenic, quiet beat.
Accommodation for the night and breakfast at nearby Southbank House was excellent and would highly recommend. Dinner and good ale in the 'Bunch of Carrots' nearby very tasty too.
Will come again, for longer.

4 Barbel, 6 Chub

1 chub, 1 barbel lost. First time on this stretch.

All fish returned. Very disappointed as we were unable to fish more than 500 yds of the upper beat due to barbed wire across the bank and river preventing access. We had two rods booked on the upper beat and one rod on the lower beat.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

Brown fast water. Caught on pellet.

4 Chub

7 Barbel, 3 Chub

1st time we have fished this section, we thought the swims were limited.
The river was in perfect condition and dropping. My friend fished for Barbel and blanked. I fished the float and caught all day, 2 trout, small salmon par, 3 grayling, loads of dace, 1 good chub and some chublets. There are so many dace of about 5 inches long in the river. In 2 to 3 years it will hopefully be like it was 40 years ago when you could win matches with 70lb of dace. There definitely has been an explosion of young dace and chub which bodes well for the future.
Overall a lovely day.

2 Trout, 3 Grayling, 1 Chub, 50 Other

Another good day on the Wye with fish caught steadily throughout the day.

Spent a couple of hours fishing the bottom half of this beat (EA gauge at 0.42m) river running clear and a little up. A few fish rising but all caught on weighted Pearly PTN (on jig hook) or Longparish Diver (on a jig hook). The 'other' fish was a 15cms Perch. Grayling 20-35 cm and the OOS was trout 25cms.

1 Trout, 6 Grayling, 1 Other

Few fish caught around the banks on pop up worm. As for me, 1 rainbow caught on a spinner in 8hrs fishing all methods. Weather, drizzle all day.

1 Trout

River was certainly up a few feet with colour since my last visit in September with a lot of debris. The fishing was disappointing on the whole but I guess timing is everything like all rivers at this time of year. 2 chub, 2 eels and lost a very good barbel at dusk.

2 Chub, 2 Other