Feedback & Reports

We arrived at dawn to witness a multitude of leaping salmon, we would of been there earlier had we not been stopped by the police in Fownhope! "You've driven all the way from wiltshire to fish? You're mad!" She was right, we are.

The fishing was tough. A smattering of chub kept our hopes up through the morning, one of them nearly pulled my companion into the river! He was certain it was a barbel and I couldn't disguise my glee when a chub surfaced at the net. The canoes were not too bad, we caught a brace and ate them with a nice salad for lunch.

I contacted and immediately lost a barbel early afternoon, then it seemed to switch off. We couldn't even raise a few tiddlers trotting bread punch. Late afternoon a dinghy with an outboard attached chugged upstream, soulless git. It was around 6pm when things started to liven up. I took a barbel from the mouth of the Lugg and the chub came back on the feed, providing some entertainment for my comrade.
We fished hard until dark. One more barbel fell to my rod at dusk from Upper Sally's. My friend remained barbus free but I think he's gone off them after being attacked by a shoal at Backney last year.

It was a lovely day all in all, one of those days when a couple of hard won fish provide a great deal of satisfaction.

Managed to break my current barbel drought at last. Spent the bulk of the day watching my dad hauling chub without getting a single nibble myself. Wet and windy, so I wasn't that keen to go roving, but I'm glad I did, because at about 5pm I found the barbel tightly shoaled up and proceeded to take 7 in 90 mins, averaging 6lb, 7lb the biggest. There seem to be fish all over the stretch, mainly chub, but in low water conditions the barbel obviously hold up in one or two areas. Find these and the sport is very, very good. Not as big as the barbel in some other WUF stretches, but quite willing to eat baits, and many were completely unmarked with no evidence of having been hooked previously. Great day.

WOW best days fishing ever. Where do I start. Started fishing 7.30am caught chub steadily all day upto 6lb, me and my mate must of had 40 good sized fish and plenty of dace and smaller chub. Decided to move downstream about 7pm and thats when the fun really started, fished till 9.30pm. In this 2 1/2 hour spell I had 10 barbel over 5lb upto 7lb and my mate had 13 barbel of the same weight. I have never seen such a feeding frenzy like it they were leaping out of the water taking on the drop. Halibut pellets caught them all. Thanks WUF

Chub only today. Barbel staying amongst streamer weed, of which there is a lot, making them difficult to land. Next time, with different tactics, I expect to do a lot better.
Access excellent and for the first time on the Wye, my dad, who walks on crutches was able to get down to the river and back up again unassisted. The path to drive down is a bit confusing to find at first. The only way I can describe it is to go straight on through the entrance gate, through two other gates (which aren't mentioned in the description) and you'll end up at the miniature fishing hut.

I wouldn't like to drive out of the gate on my own though. There's absolutely no way of seeing the road left or right, and it can be fairly busy at times, so I wouldn't recommend fishing this one alone.

Arrived at this beat very early and was into fish straight away. I had 4 barbel between 6 and 8lb in the first 2 hrs and my fishing partner had 3 barbel between 4 and 6lb and a chub. Then the sun got on the water and the fish went off so we spent the rest of the day roving this lovely beat and had a further 4 barbel upto 6lb and 6 chub upto 5lb ish. I had a lovely time trotting with sweetcorn and caught some very good dace upto 8ozs but were mostly 5 or 6 ozs. It was a shame we had to leave at 5pm because we would of had a few more fish I feel.

We had an unexpected salmon angler for a couple of hours on the beat but despite seing a few fish jumping he didn't get one. Had a good chat with the baliff he was very helpful and had a few good storys to tell. Many thanks for a truely lovely day.

2x chub to 4lbs+ on luncheon meet, plus one barbel 5lbs+, also on luncheon meat.

River conditions were excellent but the day was horrific. Definitely not recommended for Sunday fishing. I have fished the wye now for 12 years and obviously tollerent of the canoes, but some idiot that hired out a few canoes told the canoeist to paddle upstream which, if you have canoed, is very difficult, especially at the rapids. There were people trying to canoe up the rapids whilst the canoeists from Hereford were trying to get down causing commotion and leading to capsizing and all sorts. The desperation of the paddles hitting the side of the boat whilst trying to get up the rapids was horrendous and I think obviously put the fish off. Therefore not recommended whilst school hols or sundays I dont think.

2 barbel 5 & 6lb 3 chub 2, 4 & 5lb. The rivers were great just dropping and fining down after the down pours we had earlier in the week.

Excellent day for fishing. The river rose a foot while we were there. We had bit of a problem in the faster water with the weed that was dislodged by the rising water. Rods bent round within minutes of casting out. We found some slower water and using pellets we caught between us 9 chub and 12 barbel to 8lb 8oz. Very enjoyable day and worth another visit. Thanks Wye and Usk Foundation.
We stayed overnight at the Falcon House at How Capel. Highly recommended.

Started around 10.30 just by the fishing hut, water clear and low, caught several chub to 4lb. After lunch moved downstream and started to catch Barbel took 3 to 6lb and lost a big one in the weed. Finished around 6pm would probably have landed more towards dusk.

Weather cloudy and windy, put my brolly up as a shield from the chilly wind. Caught lots of chub some were good fish 4/5lb, but no barbel. I caught them on sweetcorn and pellets. Saw a Pike take a baby Moorhen with Mother making mournful cries, but this is nature. If it is not possible to cross the field in your vehicle it is quite a treck with your gear. It is a lovely stretch of river and should fish well with a good flow of water.