Feedback & Reports

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

Found a swim in the thickly weeded runs: loose weed coming down constantly made it tricky. No barbel showing today but had 5 chub between 3 and 5 pounds on luncheon meat. This stretch was thick with massive shoals of dace and chublets; did some trotting and managed to get through to a few impressive dace to 8oz. Very enjoyable day.

5 Chub

4 Chub 2 Barbel seen an Egrit!!

River low and clear. Fished for barbel with pellets and open end feeder. Caught 1 chub, 1lb 4 oz. For £45 we won't be going there again.

1 Chub

Booked BOTH available rods on this beat only for a salmon angler to turn up bold as brass and start fishing !!!!! THIS IS THE SECOND TIME I HAVE HAD THIS HAPPEN ON THIS BEAT . Last time the WUF said that I should have ring their offices and they would have despatched the ghillies. Well this time I did that but not surprisingly being Sunday there was no answer, not even a facility to leave a message! Why don't the Foundation just supply the ghillies details with the booking ???????
Booking coarse fishing through the WUF is not cheap, in fact it is extremely expensive but I am prepared to pay as it does offer the "exclusive access".
Not happy and won't be making any further bookings through the WUF given the amount of other cheaper options available on the river.
WUF Note : As advertised in the website beat description, a small salmon syndicate fish this beat so please be aware absolute exclusivity cannot always be guaranteed.

4 Barbel, 8 Chub

Lovely day on Lower Carrots and Luggsmouth. Hot and bright weather, river was coffee coloured. No fish caught.

Fished from first light to 1pm. Caught 3 barbel to 10lb all on pellets with PVA bags feed. GATE ENTRY NOTE care must be taken on entry and exit large chance of GROUNDING!!!! your transport.

3 Barbel

Just a spur of the moment "quick hit " session...River quite high on arrival but was dropping like the clappers! Dropped 18" while we were there. Fishing quite sporadic but pleased to end with 3 barbel to about 7lb, 4 chub and an eel all on feeder fished pellet.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub, 1 Other