Feedback & Reports

River much cooler than previous recent visits with a slight colour. Fished the Hut beat from early to midday when the expected slug of water arrived putting paid to fly. No fish caught and none seen but very pleasant session especially as no canoes.

River up and coloured to create what appeared to be perfect summer barbel conditions, however no-one told the fish and we struggled to eventually catch 6 quality barbel from a mid beat swim. Favoured pegs at top of fishery did not produce; beach peg continues to be very snaggy and must be full of lost leads and swimfeeders!

6 Barbel

Fished 8.30am till bout 1 pm. About twelve to hand, few lost, all taking size 16 bead heads mainly from where I could find any deeper water. After passing over the Wye to reach this beat I was slightly shocked to see that the heavy rain on Thurs/Friday had caused the stream to rise at all and no colour in the very shallow water, never the less, crept up on a fair few and had half days sport taking mainly fish in the 9-13 inch bracket. Amazing to see how many fry were in the Escley every pool. Had several hence using size 16 instead of size 18 - 22 which would be my normal approach in such water conditions.

12 Trout

Arrived on beat at 2.30pm and fished until 8.30pm. The river was in great condition, the best it's looked this season so far. The river was carrying 5ft of extra water and dropping off nicely.

Finished with several barbel from 6lb to 9lb, all caught on feeder and pellet tactics.

3 Barbel

Perfect conditions, river coloured and dropping steadily all day. 31 barbel and 1 eel between us. P fished all day on last peg before the bridge pillars, I started the day on the next peg where i had 2 barbel but decided to move after a while and go right to the top of the beat between the bushes where I took another 15 barbel and 1 eel. We both used the groundbait and pellet in the feeder and pellet on the hook.

Superb day, lovely surroundings.

Be aware if you don't have a 4x4 it's quite a walk from the carpark involving a hill, worth it though on this experience.

31 Barbel, 1 Other

The river was still falling from the 3 foot rise on Thursday night. No fish showing. We fished nymphs and wets for 3 trout to 10" and a surfeit of salmon parr.

3 Trout

Light rain most of day. River had droped 1ft in previous 18 hours but still had fair pit of colour and odour of cow s**t. Took a handful of small fish, all under 6". Not sure this river is fishing like it used to.

4 Trout

Nothing to report. Had to postpone our visit to the river but hope to try again soon.

Excellent service from the Foundation.

Very windy day with patchy rains. Could only fish from 5pm to 8pm. Used dry flies first, then tried some nymphs. I felt slight bites to nymphs, but could not get those. Lovely beat with plenty of fish moving around. Will return again to hopefully catch some.

5 x trout 6-9 inches, Rusty Klinkhammer. Filling in a couple of hours on a rainy morning - went up about half way. Despite all the showers, today, last night and over recent days, this little brook is still very low and fishing is correspondingly slightly difficult. The Forest upstream acts as a huge sponge and it isn't saturated yet. The upper Wye, on the other hand, has a 2 foot plug of muddy water rushing down it this very same morning, heading towards Hereford!

5 Trout