Feedback & Reports

Sunday Chubby Sunday.
Arrived late @ 4 pm, very windy, first cast a 4.12 chub which set the tone for the next 5 1/2 hours - some kind of feeding frenzy irrespective of bait, hook size, hair length etc. I stopped counting after a dozen, mostly around 3-4 lb with a few chublets thrown in, some bites within a second of pellet landing in the water. A welcome break at 9pm when a solitary 8lb barbel joined the party then after that more chub.

6 chub on sweetcorn to 4lbs and 2 barbel to 5lb on pellet taken later in the day. I helped land a good barbel for the other angler booked on. Very plesent day away from work. Thank you.

I booked 3 days' coarse fishing on Lower Carrots and Luggsmouth for 28-30 June. You asked for a catch return.

28th June. I shared the beat with P.M. I had 3 barbel and some chub: best barbel about 8lbs. I gave up my swim to Mr M, as I was quite content.

29th June - I had the beat to myself. I caught 9 barbel, mostly between 4-6lbs. I gave the swim a resy mid-way through the day and caught chub, one after another, between 3/4 and 3lbs.

30th June - I went home - another day's fishing would have been an anti-climax!

A few comments: access is no problem, but you should stress that egress is extremely dangerous, with no visibility to the road whatsoever. Commuter hours are worst. It would have been very wet indeed to make it difficult to cross the field, which is level sheep pasture. The downstream field is much the better fishing, having more holding pools.

Will you thank the man who delat with my phone booking please, I thinmk he was called Seth (but I'm getting old, doddery and forgetful). The beat really suited my needs as access to the river was easy all along the stretch. I asked about B&B and he told me to stay at The Bowens (no choice!) and it was most satisfactory.

Thanks to the Wye & Usk Foundation, you do a great job.
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WUF note: the exit from the field back onto the busy road is blind and can be dangerous. Please take every caution.

7 barbel to 8lb 6oz, say 15+ chub to floating breadcrust to about 3lbs, 3 dace.

7 barbel (6 for me :-) ) and 3 chub. Water even lower than last report. Barbel still to be found tightly shoaled in about a 40 metre secton of the beat. They tended to shy away from the angler wearing the Chris Yates tweeds, though the ducks were fascinated by him for some reason.

Pre baiting the spot where we found the barbel had little effect as nearly all were caught in the pool upstream from where the bait was (only 30 yards or so). Big 22mm pellets and pellet feeder were by far the best tactic. Lost 3 Barbel, one when my despised Shimano baitrunner decided to not surrender any line due to S**t clutch system, and a big fish just clean snapped a newly tied 8lb hooklink, on a through action rod.

Biggest fish 7lb 4oz.

Biggest laugh, my fishing partner being loved by every duck in the whole stretch. He even moved from where he caught the 7+ barbel just to get away from them, but they love him long time and followed him to his new spot. :)

Lovely day again, will be interesting to see where the fish go when the levels rise.

Thanks WUF for keeping this stretch in top condition.