Feedback & Reports

First time on this beat, lovely stretch. Fished the bottom end and didn't get a twitch until late evening when a small chub and 4lb barbel obliged. Conditions were not too bad, bit of push in the water and a bit of colour. An enjoyable day except for the fish who were taking the day off ...! I need to get to know this stretch a bit better so will be back.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

A good days sport. Most fish were taken towards the bottom end of the beat with pellet feeder.

12 Barbel, 4 Chub

River a bit out of sorts, already high and rising again through the day. Lots of weed in the main flow so finding slack water was essential. Difficult day with fish not readily feeding. Two good barbel caught 8lb and 8 1/2 lb to spicy sausage boilies.

2 Barbel

River very high and pouring through at a rate of knots. River good colour, but difficult fishing, river rose a foot during day, almost immpossible to fish the bottom, unless in an eddie. Streamer weed by the ton and logs the size of canoes coming down river, but an enjoyable days fishing. It is a double bank beat, but can you actually fish from the opposite bank? Barbel to 7 lbs on pellets, would like to fish this beat in better conditions.
WUF Note: Although the beat is double bank fishing, access is from the right only.

3 Barbel

Kayaks every 10 minutes. A waste of time, nil caught.

River low and weed being washed down, difficult conditions but managed 4 chub on luncheon meat.

4 Chub

Open ended Feeder!! Barbel around 6lb, Chub 3lb.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

What a day! Weather was overcast, river was fairly coloured but with a good flow on it. We couldn't stop catching Chub at first and as the day drew closer to 4pm the Barbel moved in! Between us we managed 18 Barbel, average weights of 5-7pb with a 10pb corker that my Dad caught at the end! (Jammy...) Really well kept stretch with very accessible banks, you can fish the whole stretch no problem. There are some runs with a lot more streamer weed than others but overall okay. With a total fish count of 27 we really can't complain! One of the best days fishing we've had. Thanks Wye&Usk - we'll be back.

18 Barbel, 9 Chub

Arrived at this lovely well managed stretch at about 10am and fished through till 6 pm on a hot day. The advice on entering the fishery was taken and the drive round the field was not too bad and much much preferable to a walk from the entrance. Parked at the salmon hut and decided to fish in the vicinity after first walking the stretch to identify the obvious luggsmouth hot spot at the downstream end.
I fished wagglers and pellet in the run opposite the trees upstream of the hut but only had a few chub lets. My friend on the feeder had 1 chub let after 2 hours. I decided to move upstream to a chubby looking spot and immediately had action with chub to 4lb on meat. Would have caught more on the float but wind wrong on the day for loose feeding even with a powerful catapult. Ended up with 9 chub and lost a good barbel in the near side weed when the hook pulled.
My friend went downstream and immediately was into barbel, ending up with 5 to 6lb and a bonus chub all on 8mm pellet with 4mm and hemp through the feeder.
Quite a lot of water for 2 anglers and very well maintained. Easy to walk along the comfortable banks on the entire stretch. Saw lots of salmon crashing about especially right on the mouth of the Lugg.

5 Barbel, 10 Chub

River conditions were good, running about a constant 12" over on the gauge. Not an easy start to the day, we commenced fishing about 6:45am opposite the mouth of the Lugg and after two and a half hours we hadn't even had a tremble on the rod tops so we moved further upstream and during the rest of the day my fishing buddy caught two barbel and two bonus chub from the slower, deeper water by the hut. Meanwhile I tried various swims up and down the beat until eventually, late into the afternoon I located a good barbel holding area in some faster water running along the opposite bank. From there I caught an additional chub to complement the two I had caught from elsewhere on the beat, plus what I had really been after, six barbel.
Of the fish that we caught between the two of us, the five chub we caught weighed in at around 2.1/2 to 3.1/2 lbs each and the barbel all weighed from about 4 lbs. to just under 8 lbs. each.
This was a lovely stretch that we enjoyed fishing very much. Getting the car down to the river-side was no problem as long as you take it steady. As regards the fishing, you can access the whole of the stretch from the well maintained, east to fish bank-side.
Many thanks to WUF.......We will be back next month!..

8 Barbel, 5 Chub