Feedback & Reports

Bright and clear again. P and K fished this beat today with P opting to try some float fishing from the first croy downstream of the hut. He started with sweetcorn but couldn't buy a bite so switched to 8mm banded pellet. This did the trick and P finished with 8 Chub and a small Barbel, K fished the feeder all day but unfortunately blanked.

1 Barbel, 8 Chub

Bright and clear weather conditions, river low. A and son J on this beat today and with little info to go on decided to fish close to the first croy downstream. Bites were hard to come by during the day although J had a Barbel early and ended up with 2 barbel and 4 Chub. Dad A finished up with 5 Chub, all fish came on groundbait feeder with pellet hookbaits.

2 Barbel, 9 Chub

Day 2.
Caught 8 Barbel throughout the day, 5 from one swim (100 yards down stream of the hut) and 3 from the area upstream of the bend. Most fish in the 6lb range with a couple of 5lb fish. Had 3 Chub all in the 3lb range. All fish caught on standard ledger tactics using pellet.
Wonderful 2 day fishing trip, well worth the 350 mile round trip. Already looking at booking another 2 day trip.

8 Barbel, 3 Chub

1st ever trip to the River Wye, so booked this stretch for 2 days.
Day 1
4 Barbel (2 in the first 2 hours and 2 in the last hour). Best fish was 7.06lbs. Method was pellets on standard ledger set up. 6 chub caught during the day between the barbel, best fish was 4.08lbs, same tactics.

4 Barbel, 6 Chub

Recent rain had put a bit more water in the river, but no colour. Fished first to last light. Chub first cast, but this proved to be a false dawn, as bites were very hard to come by. Two more Chub followed, one late morning, one mid afternoon. Ultimately 500 mile round journey a bit of a trip for what I could have caught in my local river, but I'll be back.
Track down to fishing hut was fine (but I do have a 4x4) and the beat has plenty of fishable swims (unlike some others).

3 Chub

Lovely day, began around the fishing hut and latterly moved downstream. Three chub to 5 pounds at the hut and then 2 barbel to 7 pounds plus another 7 chub to 4 pounds downstream, all on pellet using mixed pellets and hemp in the feeder. Trotting with a float produced nothing. Activity was sporadic, fish came in bursts followed by long periods of no bites at all. Lovely stretch of river also enjoyed by 9 swans, 6 ducks and the odd flotilla of canoes!

2 Barbel, 10 Chub

First time on this beat and looks very nice indeed. I had two fish but below the second croy after the hut.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Fished Sunday morning 5.30am, open ended feeder with 10mm halibut and caught 3 good chub. Left about 1.30pm (canoeists). Came back about 5.30pm fished same method till 9pm and had 8 barbel from 6 to 8 pounds (Fantastic). Went back next day at 5.00am had 3 more barbel and 10 chub to 5lbs. Stayed at the Greenman in Fownhope - excellent accommodation. Best time ever will be back soon.

11 Barbel, 13 Chub

Arrived at 9.00am. The river was low and clear with only the 1st and last swims having a bit of flow in them.
We both started on the float for a couple of hours with a few small fish the only result. Tried feeder just in case they wanted a static bait but nothing. We both moved to the end peg and floated fished the same swim putting in plenty of bait, my fishing friend lost a good barbel at the net, but landed 2 and lost another, I lost 1 and had a chub of about 3lb. The barbel were just under 7lb and about 5. The rain came in the afternoon and we were a bit un-prepared so finished about 7pm.
I must reiterate a previous comment about the car access, in a standard saloon you will scrape the bottom of the car so be careful, otherwise a good beat.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

First time on the stretch and a really nice looking fishery. Good access to the river. Fished the quicker water at the bottom and top of the beat to no avail. Trotting corn and ledgering pellet. Packed up about 4.00 pm. From looking at other feedback this may have been when bites would start but we had given it 9 hours and enough is enough. One bite to ledgered meat which turned out to be an eel.

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