Feedback & Reports

The Wye was still high, but a day when the dry fly seemed to work better than spiders. A mixed bag of 17 mostly small fish to various patterns. Some modest trout and a few chub which were chasing minnows in a shallow. Pride of place went to three female grayling, each 15 inches and alike as peas in a pod, which in one spot took respectively a Klinkhammer, Orange Otter and a Grayling Steel Blue, all size 16. Every time a fish was caught and returned, the shoal underneath rightly suspected deception and treachery at the surface and would not rise again until the pattern was changed.

6 Trout, 6 Grayling, 5 Chub

What a scorcher! River low, clear and slow but some reward for tolerating the heat.

6 Barbel, 8 Chub

Feeder fished with Richworth Xtracta ground bait, pellet and boilies. Ledger fished over Hinders Elipse pellets. River conditions low. Largest barbel 6lb 7oz.

5 Barbel

Nothing caught.

River very low and weather boiling hot, no fish moving or to be seen anywhere on the lower stretch of the fishery. A poor days fishing after excellent experiences in previous year. I can only put it down to river levels and heat, however I will be back to try again it is still a wonderful venue.

1 Chub

Day two - Conditions the same, low and clear very hot. D had three barbel, first about 5lb, the other's both about 7lb had two more on but lost them in snag. These were in about a one hour period between one and two in the afternoon, then nothing. Again caught on elipse pellet.

3 Barbel

Fished for 1.5 hours before breakfast and caught 4 small trout on F fly.

4 Trout

Fantastic sunny day in middle of heat wave, fished from 0700- 1900. Find the faster water and find the fish, river low so paddling out to access new runs was possible, pellet and feeder kept them coming all day. Thanks Colin for the chat. Barbel in great shape, keep changing hooklengths to keep the fish biting. Thanks Wye and Usk.

33 Barbel, 24 Chub

Very hot & sunny, low water - beautiful time for fishing but not for catching. Little activity from fish or flies, just a few olives & caddis about ... basically too sunny and too hot.
All fish returned safely but all small (10 grayling to 8" plus 2 to 14", 7 x trout to 8")

7 Trout, 12 Grayling

Difficult day. River very low and clear. A few small chublets, one decent chub and one barbel on the waggler. No bites at all on the feeder.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub