Feedback & Reports

It was a beautiful morning, very misty & still with a light frost. The river had come up 2-3 inches overnight. A very slow start and with only 1 barbel of 10lb 3oz caught within the first 3 hours we decided to move further up to the top of Vanstone. This proved as unfruitful as the morning with no further barbel showing. However lots of quality dace fell to maggot. Not the fishing quantity of the previous day, but yet again the stunning surroundings and wildlife made up for this. All barbel caught in our 2 days were of pristine condition & super hard fighters....great sport!! Can't wait to come back. Once again, well done WUF!

Unfortunately no fish caught, but excellent & friendly advice from the owner of the fishery, will definitely book more fishing on same & other of your waters. Thanks for the very prompt & efficient booking. Best regards pww (Andy). P.S. Have a wonderful Chistmas.

Just one barbel caught on pellet and one nice pike taken on deadbait, river level dropping down well during the day, fantastic scenery, wildlife, and the colour change Another nice day on Wye, thanks Colin & WUF staff for your excellent service, roll on next weekend!

Complete blank. River very brown. Seemed quite high, but it was my first time on this river so not sure what are "optimum" conditions.

Another good day on the Wye, caught 5 chub on pellet and finally caught my first barbel at the fishing hut, not a bad size at 5lb 10oz. Defo coming back.

Back again, this time the weather was abit more favourable! We fished from 7am to 4pm in the meadows stretch before the woods for 8 Barbel to 9lb 14oz. Bait was fishmeal boilies with 4/5oz leads to hold bottom. We had to cast at least once every 10 minutes at least because of the weed but the fish didnt mind!! WILL BE BACK ASAP!!!

I had a good days fishing and managed to catch some small grayling on dry fly. I also lost a grayling of well over a pound at the net. It took a weighted nymph. Also caught and returned 1 out of season brown trout. Would it be possible to install some styles/crossing places at both ends of the field to aid getting over the barbed wire?

The river very high (0.8 at EA Hay guage) and steaming through but fishable in the slacks and pools. Spent the morning piking and had a nice low double then switched to chub in the afternoon and to my surprise caught a rare upper Wye barbel a nudge under 9 pounds. Four nice chub followed to end a lovely day in the autumn sunshine made even better by the complete absence of any boats....Bliss!

With Heavy rain the night before we feared the worse for our second day at How Caple Court fishery. Thankfully we found the river to be in better condition than our previous day at Lower Ballingham. How Caple Court is a wonderful location and beautiful stretch of the river Wye.
We did our usual by walking the venue first and the nice thing we found about this stretch was there were swims which had steps down leading down to the swims unlike Lower Ballingham were we found nice spots to fish but were to dangerous to attempt to get near the water.
Phil found a swim close to the tree line where we had walked in from. I fished at the lower end where I had found some slow glides for me to trot a float through. I was in heaven feeding caster and maggots I finished the day with four quality chub including a PB of 6lb 12oz, along with a 5.4 4.10 and 3lb. I also caught better quality dace and small chublets and last fish of the day was a small roach.
Phil also had a great days fishing he managed one barbel from the first swim of 4lb and later in the day moved to a swim above the tree line and caught a further 3 barbel of 7,5 and 2, all on pellet.
I just didn't want to pack up it was one of the most memorable days fishing I have ever had, the venue is stunning and I really cant wait to go back.
I would like to thank Adam Fisher and the WUF for all their help and advise in suggesting these venues and our accommodation at the Royal lodge.

Another fabulous day at Whitney Court. River well up but peaking in mid-afternoon. More than 20 chub to about 5.5lb and two really good barbel, all on paste bait, touch legering. The biggest barbel had a growth on it's head that looked like a pellet - should we be concerned?