Feedback & Reports

Water level was very low grounding some of the many canoeists who seemed to take great delight in disturbing as much water as they could. We only managed 1 small barbel between us, trying various baits and methods. Please note the upper limit is marked by a yellow topped post and we used a foot path along the field edge to the ford stream area, slightly different to the beat map.
I would recommend anybody fishing this beat to talk to Adam Fisher the bailiff first as he was most helpful. Our thanks to him.

1 Barbel

5 Barbel, 3 Chub

It was tough going with the river low and gin clear. We persevered and made the most of a spell in the evening to land a couple of nice barbel to 8lbs 11ozs!

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

Awesome trip! First visit to the Wye, river in perfect condition, dropping level with some colour still. Fished for two days 20/21st of August, mainly used pellet fished on feeders with pellet/hemp ground bait. Had three eels on pellets as well? Good stamp of fish, barbel 5lb to 7lb best 9lb 6oz, chub 3lb to 4lb best 4lb 12oz. Lots of salmon jumping along the stretch. Very snagey, lost alot of tackle so bring plenty of feeders! Got cut off regularly so lost a few as well. Lovely peaceful countryside setting, enjoyed a lot. Many thanks Wye and Usk Foundation.

18 Barbel, 12 Chub, 3 Other

First fish of the day was a superb 9lb 14oz Barbel caught by JA on double sweet corn. Another two Barbel were netted during the day with a couple of chub, biggest 3lb 10oz and an eel, all caught on either sweetcorn, pellet and meat. River had some colour after previous rainfall. All fish were taken on the feeder.

3 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

Difficult once again.

We fished just down stream of the end of beat marker. The river was running slow and clear, we fished feeders with 6mm pellets and 8mm on the hook. I had one, the other angler had 2 fished until 4pm.

3 Barbel

Fantastic day. Trotting small banded pellet/corn/bread produce a healthy bag of chub approaching 100lb. Lost a couple of barbel on the float but bagged three on the feeder 6-8pm.
Nice long stretch of varied water with a good number of swims. Some steep banks down to water though so if you're not that agile take a rope or avoid the lower end.
Also an abundance of salmon leaping, good fish in the 10 to 20lb range.

Keep up the good work WUF!
Would definitely return

3 Barbel, 40 Chub

River looked good, not too low, a bit of colour. Between us we fished all accessible areas of the beat. No access to the river in the bottom meadow, most pegs are at the top of the beat where the access is excellent. No chub, no barbel all day for either of us. Looking at the feedback some anglers do really well on this beat but this was our second visit without a Barbel so it will be a while before we are tempted back to this beat.

It was my first time on the River Wye, I fished the Middle Hill Court stretch. I did not catch any barbel but I caught two chub at 3lb 4oz and 3lb 10oz. Both fish came to robin red pellets, fished approx 2 rod lengths out in some slack water. I fished the cage feeder with halibut flavoured ground bait.
I will definitely be back. Great venue and hopefully the river will yield me my 1st barbel.

2 Chub