Feedback & Reports

Misty moisty morning after a 3am get up. Arrived to find the river higher than I expected. Careful monitoring of online info persuaded me to give it one last go before serious Winter set in. Started off in swim below Vanstone Pool and fourth cast had what felt like a good fish on before the hook straightened out (so much for the manufacturers extra strong boast). Very hard work from then on and I worked my way swim by swim downstream trying all manner of baits. Eventually managed one barbel around 6lb before getting a pike rod out and fishing one of the slacks. Not a sniff.
Anyway glad I made the trip, satisfied my curiosity and got there. The river and surroundings were beautiful, I watched a kingfisher fish for at least half an hour and had a cheeky mink for company. I also pike fished on the Wye, something I have yearned to do for a long long time. Happy to squelch off back to the car for a long drive home. Will return but probably not until next Summer.

River looked in good condition - 3 foot or so below recent levels when I have visisted, a little colour but not too bad. Lots of rubbish coming down. One small chub for our efforts.

River dropping through the day, still carrying some colour. Quite a bit of debris in the water. Roved during the day landing 3 barbel and a chub. As always a great day on one of my favourite stretches of river.

Near enough perfect conditions, river on the high size. I had a 9.2lbs barbel in the first 20 minutues followed by a 4lbs then a 7.10lbs by 1pm. After that not a single touch. My friend KT had no bites till 2pm, then he managed to land 4 chub. Barbel very poor, we can't understand why? Overfished? River to high? The usual pegs that produce barbel were not producing any thing, pretty dissapointed.

8 barbel up to 8lb, all caught on pellet on a rising river, excellant fishing as usual many thanks.

5 fish caught, the largest was 9lb. The access road down to the fishery from the road is in a very poor state, anybody with a 2 wheel drive vehicle beware.

WUF note - This track has now been repaired.

We landed 6 Barbel to 9lbs 2oz and 4 Chub to just over 3lbs on pellet.

With the river falling and clearing we chose to fish a sociable peg halfway along the beat. Within three minutes JT had his first fish, an absolutely fantastic 11 1/2Ib Barbel. Between the two of us we had 9 barbel, fishing from 10am through to 5pm. Two 9lb and the rest all over 6lb. It seemed that this beat holds bigger than average fish.
A wonderful day and a fantastic beat.

7 Barbel to 9lb 14oz and 4 chub to 4lb 7oz were landed by us on pellet.

A pleasant day out in Autumnal sun. Five barbel came our way from 5lb to just under 8lb from two different swims out of the three we fished. River was carrying a lot of colour and dropping slowly whilst we were there.