Feedback & Reports

Monday 27th: Our first visit to this fishery so concentrated on upper section on first day, tried various likely spots but no action (weather mild, river conditions still pushing but dropping and relatively clear).
Tue 28th: Moved to Rope Pool area which looked more likely to produce and had two Barbel, one around 6lb another around 7lb mark (not weighed) and a chub of around 4lb (weather very mild, river conditions as previous).
Wed 29th: Returned to the rope pool area and had another two Barbel both around the 7lb mark and two chub one around 3lb and another at 4lb 6oz (weighed). Weather and river conditions as before.
A wonderful spot in the shadow of Goodrich Castle.

This has to be one of the best looking beats on the river Wye. It was like a spring moring when I arrived and I caught 2 lovely Barbel of 5 and 7 1/2 lbs pounds with one lost. Had to leave early to catch the rugby but many thanks to Adam for his advice he told me I would catch and also to the WUF for the great work they have done improving swim access on this lovely beat (not that it was that bad then) it is a river dont forget.

Excellent Pike fishing on a mild day. Spent 3 hours dropping into likely looking spots along the entire length of the beat. Lots of swims with ready made steps in place. Didn't have a touch, so decided to fish 3 of the more Pikey looking spots with deadbaits. Caught 3 Pike, one at 16.5lb, one at 14.5lb and a jack. Thoroughly enjoyed the day!

One pike - 18lb 4oz, legered deadbait. Lost one pike est. 15lb. Great place to fish, I'll be back.

No fish to be had again today after a hard frost and the river still up and flowing hard. It is hard to find places to fish when the river is like this. The only obvious swims did not produce.

River low but still lightly coloured. Weather relatively mild for the time of year - on the whole things looked promising. In spite of moving about and trying boilies, pellets and meat, only 1 barbel caught of about 8lbs, plus 7 or 8 chub up to maybe 3.5lbs. Looks like the barbel have shut up shop for the winter, but still a lovely place to spend a day.

River running 2 ft lower than a couple of weeks ago. Some colour in it but not much, no rubbish coming down. One barbel of 3lb on pellet in mid afternoon and 2 chub on meat at dusk; very slow day but good to be out nonetheless. Back next week for another go.

I took the advice from Mr.Fisher and fished the Rope Pool. The river was tanking through, and the colour of soup, but the steps swim offered a nice cast to the edge of the flow. I caught 4 barbel, biggest 6lb 2oz.

3 Barbel @ average of 6lbs each (returned).

River looked perfect. We tried just about every bait in our bags and only managed to catch 1 barbel of about 7lb. Very disappointing that the chub did not want to feed either.