Feedback & Reports

We travelled to the Wye over the weekend with rivers closed and everything in the balance until Monday when we received the brilliant news that the river had re-opened.
A respectful approach was employed and how the beat performed with Chub coming from start to finish mostly in the 3lb-4lb range and a couple tipping up from there. All fish handed out and returned with minimum fuss. One barbel made an appearance, circa 6-7lbs, which provided a moment of variety in the day. Float fished bread, meat and corn did the trick for the chub with the barbel falling for a Krill Wafter stuck to a method feeder. Great days fishing.

1 Barbel, 60 Chub

5 Chub

HL3 NEVER EVER DISSAPOINTS even in a heatwave and a very low river. OK only 1 barbel today but I only fished for them on a feeder for the 1st hour before the sun came out. The barbel must be outnumbered by 100 to 1 so out went the float and it was crazy fishing until I'd had enough by 11am. BUT quite a few chub had some sort of parasite / leeches which I removed and the river had a strange brown sediment which covered the stones in the margin and my landing net which I only used on the barbel. All the chub were unhooked in the water and swam off strongly after holding them in the current for a few seconds to recover. Interesting to hear from one canoeist that had hadn't seen any significant weed as he went by!! Cheers WUF
PS other Dace.

1 Barbel, 40 Chub, 4 Other

Great days fishing for both of us. Every fish was a chub and all caught on the float.

80 Chub

24 Chub

2 anglers

5 Barbel, 80 Chub

2 anglers

5 Barbel, 100 Chub

2 Barbel, 35 Chub

Two fishing. Beat is rammed with chub. Bill of fish caught on the float. Great day

85 Chub

Amazing amount of chub that just kept coming all day.Did manage a couple of barbel though.The river was very low and very green

2 Barbel, 80 Chub