Feedback & Reports

First time on this beat and had a brilliant session. Fished from 5am till 11am. Had a few nice chub early on up to about 4lb. Then an hour later I had a very positive bite and struck into what I thought was a decent barbel at first as it tore off up stream stripping line. Then after a good old scrap I managed to pull him up to the surface for a look and it was in fact a big common carp. Never had a river carp before and Christ do they fight. Played him for about 45 mins on fairly light tackle. Heart was racing. Convinced he was going to snag me but managed to net him eventually despite getting very wet in the process including my boots. Gave him a few minutes to rest in the net and noticed he only had one eye. A proper old river warrior of 18lb. Over the moon.

Then not long after had a barbel of just over 8lb. And then a flurry of nice chub again before packing up. All fish caught on 12mm sticky krill dumbbells. Fished about 2/3rds of the way out. Used hemp and mixed pellet for ground bait. Normal feeder tactics.

Beautiful place to fish with many accessible swims. Fantastic stretch and will certainly be back.

1 Barbel, 7 Chub, 1 Other

Decent weather, river low, caught using pellet feeder, others were eels on meat. Parking was a bit tricky as there was a land rover already there. Great to see plenty of swims have been trimmed back, hopefully this will continue throughout the season as hope to return soon.

Would be good to see w&u private fishing signs up like next doors fishery. Thank you for the access.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub, 2 Other

Really hot day again, just for once the forecasters predictions of sunny spells was accurate...... that’s if a 10 hour cloudless sky with the sun beating down constitutes a ‘spell’?
Fishing was good despite the weather and all but 2 of the fish came from the meadow field to meat and pellets. A couple of chub on the float but the rest on a straight lead. Nice stretch and plenty of places to access the river, think some of the previous comments on river access were a little over the top, it is a wild river not a commercial puddle so sometimes it takes a bit of an effort!
One thing to note WUF, the parking area designated on the maps and directions has now been coned and roped off due to some logging work going on. There is a couple of places to park but not the best on a single track road!

4 Barbel, 12 Chub

Decided against fishing, thought it would be too hot and not fair on the fish (or me!!)

So hot! I didn't hold out much hope of catching, which was the case. One solitary dog chub and not a sign of barbel. Fished the faster water at the end of the beat and then later on back towards to woods. Started at about 3pm but packed up at 8pm, I just had that feeling nothing was going to happen apart from heat exhaustion. Nice hill climb at the end to get the blood pumping. It is a lovely looking place.

1 Chub

11 Barbel, 2 Chub

Tough day, river was at normal summer level but water was dark brown. Did not arrive until midday it was raining .Fish caught within an hour of arriving from about halfway up the beat, the rain went off & the sun came & the fish disappeared . Quite a few swims have been made in the lower two fields however the banks are very steep & great care is needed. The main problem was the amount of thin stranded weed that instantly wrapped around the feeder & hookbait , have never seen it this bad before. On another note the parking area is conned off at the moment due to foresty work, not sure where else you could park, managed to squeeze in on the end, would be a problem if more than one car needed to park there. Fish were caught on pellet & feeder tactics, lovley to be back on the wye again.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Some of the swims access are hilarious !

Beautiful beat, but very difficult to get to the water. A blank today, not even a bite from the one swim I could fish, most swims are very steep and you are still four foot from the water. The water was low and full of weed(algae) which was attached every time I reeled in.
Lovely location but won't be rushing back unfortunately.

Hard days fishing with only few missed bites, accessibility limited to river towards top off stretch beautiful surroundings.