Feedback & Reports

3 Chub

A tough day at the Creel. Barbel seemed not to be up for it today. My colleague did manage to find one but the river was unusually quiet with only the occasional chub making an appearance. A lovely day and will be back soon. Thank you for the addition of the steps to assist with access.

1 Barbel, 7 Chub

A very hard day on the creel today. Started in a known spot that my friend had some brilliant catches from a few weeks ago and couldn't get a bite. Ended up fishing further upstream and finally found the fish about 8pm. Had a steady hour between us towards the end of the session and we were pleased to end the evening with a few fish.

7 Barbel, 14 Chub

All fish were caught am or late afternoon - non midday

14 Barbel, 10 Chub

The river was low and clear. Fish were only caught early am and late afternoon

8 Barbel, 6 Chub

Just a few hours on the river before the drive home after our week on the Wye. Worst time of the day to fish. No barbel tempted, just a couple of chub and five lovely eel. To sum up our week, it's been terrific. Fished 6 different beats and enjoyed them all. The wildlife as usual always adds to the enjoyment.
If you are in to numbers we had 110 barbel between the two of us and plenty of chub also.

Looking forward to returning already.

2 Chub, 5 Other

River very low indeed. We were able to hold bottom with 2 and 2.5oz feeders fished across the river next to far bank cover which is where the barbel were. Nothing much caught in more open water. Most of the fish were in the 4-6lb bracket with three touching 9lbs. We fished two of only three swims we could find. Gratifying to see some effort has been made for access to these swims by the installation of some steps - same spot my friend fell down last year and dislocated his shoulder!
A picturesque stretch marred only by the severe lack of swims, which is a shame because there is some interesting water which is just completely inaccessible.

17 Barbel, 8 Chub

Fished from dawn to dusk, 4 Barbel (not big) and 4 medium size chub. Nice place but number of swims are limited which is quite typical of Wye and Usk waters

4 Barbel, 6 Chub

No rush to the river today, 26 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. We did a bit of peregrine falcon spotting at Yat Rock and were fortunate to time it just right to see three of them in the air at the same time for quite a while. Pub lunch followed at the Saracens at Symonds Yat East to fuel us for the fishing.

We arrived at the river and started at 4pm til 10pm. Using 10mm pellets straight to a bomb with loose fed pellets. The odd ball of groundbait thrown in if we felt it needed it. No feeders.

Fishing close in so all bites were rod wrenchers as we got them feeding well. 22 nice barbel in the 6lb to 8.5lb range with just one chub to spoil the party.

Birds down the river today, little egret, swallows, swifts, sand martins, house martins, tawny owl to name a few.

Heaven!

22 Barbel, 1 Chub