Feedback & Reports

Fishing was very patchy and made harder by bright sunshine and lots of weed coming down the river. One rod faired well by the bridge with three barbel to 9lbs, whilst another managed one barbel and an eel. The remaining two rods blanked despite fishing very hard and covering the whole beat. It's the first blank I've had in three years and many visits. Access to the stretch by car is very good so it's a convenient stretch to fish. Good fun was had by all as always on the River Wye.

4 Barbel, 1 Other

The river was up and brown due to Thursday's heavy rain. Caught a 4.5lb chub downstream from the croy's, but the weed volume forced a move. Tried fishing deeper water at lunchtime. This produced five lovely conditioned barbel, three of them between 7lb and 8lb. The usual pellet baits scored again.

Managed a 7.5lb barbel from one of the middle croy's in the morning, but fishing was difficult due to weed volume in the rising river. Spent the afternoon below the bridge in faster water. This resulted in four average size barbel, to conclude another enjoyable day on this idyllic stretch.

Pools were unfishable, due to the amount of weed coming down river. Fished wider stretch down river had 5 barbel, 3 chub then had to pack up due to the heavy weed. Beautiful stretch, will be back.

5 Barbel, 3 Chub

A good fun day's fishing off the croy's, resulting in 8 barbel to 6lb and a nice 4lb chub. All on pellets.

8 Barbel, 1 Chub

River very very low. Tried a number of swims throughout and caught a lot of weed and not a lot else. Was slightly peeved to find the beach section already being fished from the other side via syndicate water. The idea was to pay the higher fee and have the whole stretch to ourselves. Undoubtedly a good looking piece of river and would try again with higher water levels.
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River low and clear, saw very little fish movement. We tried several spots but with little success. For a water that can normally produce some good catches a very disappointing day, especially at the increased price.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Superb day on this lovely stretch. used heavy feeder groundbait/small pellets, with pellet on hair rig. river was quite coloured with good flow. Fish caught mid-river. Red letter day!!!

14 Barbel, 4 Chub

No catch.

River was slightly coloured, and was dropping after being up this week. 9 barbel and 1 chub came from 1 swim, the other 8 barbel came from 3 separate swims. We caught on 8mm halibut pellets. Don't spend too long in a swim if it's not producing.

17 Barbel, 1 Chub