Feedback & Reports

Well what can I say?
Arrived to find a family picnicking right where I wanted to fish with kids and dogs swimming in the river. Barbecue in full flight on the bank, radio at full whack and a scene reminiscent of Weston Super Mare beach!
Started fishing only for another family to arrive on the dreaded canoes and hold an impromptu white water lesson directly in front of us for the next 2 hours before they dragged the canoes out on to the beach and also started to have a barbecue party!
Caught 3 barbel and a solitary chub amongst the commotion, biggest at 9lb 1oz for my 13 yr old son.
Have to say I left the stretch a little dejected having paid nearly £50 for exclusivity only to have my fishing ruined by townies!
I do think WUF should offer evening/half day tickets and also some discount for juniors. £22.50 is extremely expensive for coarse fishing unless total exclusivity can be guaranteed.

WUF note - Unfortunately it is very difficult for us to react to these reports days after the incident. Please call the Booking Office immediately if you should encounter incidents such as this. This beat has a ghillie/keeper who we can phone any time to deal with issues such as this. We try to ensure exclusivity but it is impossible to monitor the whole river 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Another wonderful River Wye session. Arrived at 6.15am to another baking hot start. The river looked very low, clear and not great for fishing, but we love the scenery here and the fishing can be very productive. I did the usual of dragging the base of the car along the entrance and nearly ripped off my exhaust! Really needs sorting that bit! The farmer had trimmed back the field but left the high grass along the entry track which would have helped to improve the fishery no end. We started as usual targeting the faster flow areas as there was little flow else where on the beat. Things started slow as expected and it wasn't much before 3pm that the first signs of the barbel feeding could be seen. Things were sporadic but as evening drew in the bites became more frequent and I bagged 8 fish to just under 7lbs and my fishing partner on his first ever trip to the Wye had 3 barbel to 7lb 8oz.
Another great session here and we both look forward to our next installment! All fish taken on CBS River Monster Boilies and Feeder techniques.

11 Barbel, 1 Chub

Water low, at 6 inches on the gauge. Best chub 3.14lbs, Barbel 5.9lbs. Barbel took ledgered halibut pellet. Chub on ledgered cheese and meat.
First visit to a Foundation water. Enjoyed the day very much.

1 Barbel, 7 Chub

Nice day, most of the fish came in the late afternoon/evening session. Also caught a large eel.

7 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

River nice colour and up 1 foot, looked great. Flogged it all day, every swim and all across the river on pellet feeder. Very disappointing result.

2 Chub

Just after setting up for the day and getting bites from the word go. I had my swim ruined by a salmon angler who set up just a few yards from me. He worked the whole beat for 4 hours before leaving me to it! Not best impressed to be honest. It took a long time for the section to come back to life and it wasn't much before 2pm before the fish started to show again. My fishing partner struggled a little after his late arrival and took just 3 small chub but I eventually got the barbel interested and bagged 9 to 9lb 5oz on the CBS River Monster Boilies also took 4 lovely big chub to 5lb 9oz too. Be warned the entrance to the hard standing car park off the main road has a rather aggressive drop and I caught the base of my car on it badly as I entered. The track down to the river is also very unnerving with high thick grass down the middle and generally very overgrown foliage which made it difficult to see the path.

9 Barbel, 7 Chub

Weather very hot and river running clear. 2 chub one on float one on feeder. Very hard going.

2 Chub

Nice day out, with the brilliant scenery. Good meal at The Moon afterwards. Nice healthy, good sized Chub!

5 Chub

We actually fished two days. The 8th. July we fished a stretch just below the Fairview Guest House, where we stayed in great comfort, with the very knowledgeable and great river angler Dave Harrell, who was our guide for the day. On this day it started off very well then we had a tremendous thunderstorm and torrential rain which definitely affected the fishing quite badly. despite this we caught two barbel and 16 chub.
The next day we fished the Lower Carrots and Luggs Mouth stretch,on our own but with a lot of advice and accumulated knowledge from Dave Harrell. We had 6 barbel up to about 8/9 lbs. and 15 chub up to 5lbs. plus, all good fish. All fish were taken trotting down using Dave's special floats and rig suggestions. It was lovely having this whole stretch entirely to ourselves. A most enjoyable trip!

6 Trout, 8 Barbel, 31 Chub

Had some nice chub form the middle part of the beat then moved down to the Luggsmouth section and found the barbel.Saw a few salmon jumping in the pools downstream. Lovely days fishing cheer's WUF.

5 Barbel, 10 Chub