Feedback & Reports

Summer levels. Fish caught on pellet feeder and trotted maggot. Two of the chub around 3lb. Barbel were small but a pleasure to see. Nice afternoons fishing!

3 Barbel, 5 Chub

River low and clear we fished the available swims and I caught 12 barbel all under a pound, a brown trout and a dace of about 8oz, my fellow angler caught one small chub, all came to maggot on feeder tactics after persevering for several hours on pellet feeder gave no results.

12 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

NH & CB Fished Foy bridge on sat 8 Oct hard day: 5 small chub 1 dace 2 trout. Tried meat pellet /corn but no barbel .

2 Trout, 5 Chub, 1 Other

Second visit to this stretch in a month, another very good day, but in many ways a lot different to last visit, no small chub or dace . All the chub caught were large fish between 4 & 6lb and in fantastic condition. Once again the barbel were mostly small between 1lb and 3lb. I think the fact that I am fishing either a big balsa float or a Waggler with 3 or 4 maggots is more suited to catching these smaller barbel. I suspect if you fished a static bait you would catch some of the larger barbel. The other angler on the beat did have larger barbel on the feeder and pellet, But I prefer to fish the float and keep active.
Thank you again WUF

1 Trout, 17 Barbel, 9 Chub

River low with little colour; overcast. Started well with a barbel just shy of 7lb in the afternoon. Went quiet so changed from pellet to meat which produced only an eel. Hoped the barbel would come on later, but they would not oblige and only a chub as darkness fell.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

Moved around various swims, finally found some feeding fish in the afternoon. River pushing through quite fast. Largest barbel 7lbs.

5 Barbel

River looked perfect with a bit of flow, colour and weather conditions warm-ish. This is a relatively small fishery with a handful of swims so I set up in one that looked comfy... Barbel fed throughout the day and I finished up with 8 barbel that included two in the low 10lbs, one around 9lb and the rest 6-8lb. Feeder and pellet again doing the business.

8 Barbel, 1 Chub

First time on this beat and only second time on the Wye. Fished feeder and halibut Pellet from 9am to 6pm. Fished bottom peg on left hand bank looking downstream until early afternoon. Just the one fish Barbel 5lb 8oz. Moved to top 'beach' beat on opposite bank in afternoon but no luck there.

1 Barbel

Nice days fishing plenty of small chub and dace to keep us busy ... I put down 20 other, but to be honest lost count!!! all barbel were small beauties around the pound mark. Nearly all fish came on maggot feeder as struggled to get bites on pellet..

5 Trout, 1 Grayling, 5 Barbel, 6 Chub, 20 Other

River slowly rising, fish mainly caught on corn, barbel up to 8.5lb and also down to 1.5lb. Chub up to 4lb

13 Barbel, 5 Chub