Feedback & Reports

Second time on river Wye. Arrived at 7.30am. Temperature 3 degrees celsius. River was flooded, water level high and the speed super fast. 4oz feeder would not stay in the place where I wanted until hit some rock. I started near to Luggsmouth. I tried to cast to place where water flow was little bit slower. Stayed there till 2pm. Nothing there. Then I moved near to the fishing hut and finally I caught my first Barbel ever 5lbs/64cm. Soon after first came second, 5lbs/68cm. Later 1 chub. Then everything get quiet. Nice place, long walk from the carpark, but ok for me. If you have 4x4 you could drive near to the river I guess. Be careful when leaving, impossible to see to the right. I will be back one day.

Good start, ended badly. River pushing hard but fishable early on. A 7lb 6oz barbel and two around 5lb from a crease swim below hut after switching from pellet to garlic Spam. River then started to come up fast and kept rising, wrecking that swim and most others. Not another touch. At leaving time, solved dangers of dreaded exit gate (point the car up the steep ramp at an oblique angle and wait until its dark enough to pick up headlights) but found another. Someone had refastened the makeshift loop of barbed wire on the gate so tightly (must have used gloves and pliers) as to make closure almost permanent. Ten minutes of bloody struggle and a gashed thumb later,I remembered the forceps in the tackle bag and escaped a predicament caused by what seemed to me a pointed and mean-spirited action, since it was clear an angler remained on site.

Water low and clear, cold the previous few nights. Rained all day - and I mean ALL day! Small chub and 1 small barbel.

Caught 8 barbel between 3 & 7lb from pool just above Lugg mouth. Bait, x2 6mm pellets glued to a hair.

Arrived about 10 ish, one salmon fisherman in action, at lunchtime he left and two more salmon anglers arrived, later in the afternoon another course angler arrived and then two men collected their pedalo (Yes I really mean in Pedalo!) from the bank and pedalled up stream. Quite a busy day. On the fishing side of things I caught 4 Chub, all good fish but not a sight or smell of the Barbel.
Thanks to WUF however for the beats that we can all choose.

This was a trip to take my daughter fishing, we like this beat as it has very good bank access and I can usually find the fish quite quickly. Had not been on the beat an hour when I took a 10lb cock salmon on a green highlander, expertly netted by my daughter. She has watched me throw a line few times this summer without sucess so I was over the moon to be able to share this moment with her. Then we turned to the barbel, my daughter landing a nice fish on her own with me at the net this time, there was even someone on hand to photograph us with her fish. We ended up with half a dozen and could have kept going; fishing does not come much better than this!

The last day of our 5 day trip was spent in familiar territory with very blustery weather. During the day, we tried swims up river and had a few barbel to 6lbs 10oz and a half dozen chub to 4lbs 8oz, all on pellet. For the evening we set up in the pylon swim hoping for a final rush of barbel but they decided to be very cagey and we had to be content with three to 6lbs 2oz between us. By 7pm it died completely so we packed up for the trip home. Thanks to WUF and staff for a very enjoyable week.

Perfect day, fished a windless sunny morning downsteam opposite the pylon. Barbel every where, caught eight fish on meat to 7lbs between 8am and 10am which is a personal best for me. Track not a problem. Thanks WUF.

Nice and bright day. Very easy access and you can fish this beat along the whole stretch. An Eel in the morning and a few fish missed. There was another angler on this beat but maybe he wasn't catching either as he left fairly early. The middle part of the day was extremely slow maybe because of the lack of cover on the bank. My friend who came along to shoot some pictures had a field day tho with some cracking shots of the swanns who kept us entertained most of the day. Come 5 o'clock the fishing instantly picked up and 3 decent sized Chub were landed followed by a 7.8lbs Barbel. Note: The Barbel had someone else's tackle still attached in its mouth which I removed. I'd wish people would stop using barbed hooks as it is clearly not necessary to use them. Anyway apart from that the fish were all in excellent condition. I finished with another Chub before sunset as we had to travel back to Bristol for other arrangements. Thank WUF.

2 Barbel caught and 2 slipped the hook. Not as productive as previous visits to this stretch but an ejoyable day nevertheless. Usual feeder and pellet tactics used.