Feedback & Reports

Great days fishing. All fish caught on feeder with pellet hookbaits, biggest chub in excess of 6lb and biggest barbel over 10lb. No exact weights were recorded as fish fought very hard, and was more important to make sure of safe return. Very nice enjoyable day!!!

9 Barbel, 21 Chub

Arrived at 6am and was pleasantly surprised to spot a couple of Barbel and a Chub from the bridge. Fished the roadside stump peg on fishmeal and corn feeder. After a quiet start we soon started catching chub with just the odd Barbel thrown in. Having fished this beat before I knew that resting the swim for a couple of hours usually helps so we went to the bottom limit and freelined meat in the fastest water. Within half an hour we had 5 chub on this method so went for a wander on the opposite bank. Was treated to a display of a dozen or so barbel spawning in the shallow fast glide - was a pleasure to witness and solved the problem of why the Barbel were not playing ball. Back in the original swim the fishing picked up in the afternoon and we finished with 26 Chub between 1lb and 4.05 and 4 barbel to 5.13. All but five on Sweetcorn. Great day in a fantastic place

4 Barbel, 26 Chub

Very limited stretch due to lack of any depth and the pacey water, but made the best of it with 5 chub, 1 trout and a little salmon parr. The first 2 chub came from the downstream back eddy on the left bank to maggot feeder tactics. The next three fell to float fished maggots from the right bank near the bridge. Biggest fish might have just shaded 4lb.

1 Trout, 5 Chub, 1 Other

Beautiful stretch of the Wye, fast water but quite shallow below the bridge giving an ideal spot to chest wade and present the fly in the water.
You can fish this beat in less than 2 hours. I combined this with my day at Backney to supplement my day.
Thank you.

Conditions were very cold and windy. River was 2ft up but had two chub to 4lb on pellet.

2 Chub

Water very cold. Two chub of about 4lb each, both on meat. One barbel lost, gave trotting a go but not much depth to the swims on this stretch of water.

2 Chub

Nice warm day, sunny start around 10am. Started bottom on the swim, road side trotting bronze maggot. Waded out behind tree, water surprisingly strong! Loose fed 10 or so maggots every run down. After one and a half hours and 4 lots of hook links gone for nowt, I put the straight lead down the end of the faster water and lost a further 3 rigs. Time to move. Over the bridge, down in front of the two trees, feeder on stuck with the maggots to use them up. Whoopy! 2lbs chub first chuck, (poor fish had been got at by a cormorant or some other predator) cloud cover happened so anticipation heightened.....this is when I started encountering willow suckers and small branches continuously pushing through my swim. This cost me 4 sets of feeders!! Debris pulling the line under rocks or into bigger snags(?) etc. Getting low on kit, I moved back to the bridge to try to avoid the debris - nope... 3 more losses of end kit did it for me and off home by 4pm to be honest not one of my better days, looked fine but hard to understand where any fish would hold in that sort of flow and constant debris?

1 Chub

Quite a lively day, weather wise. River still high, so fished the 1st swim on the opposite bank all day (the other swims would have all been a bit tricky with the elevated level). Managed 3 barbel during morning and early afternoon. Fishing in the last few hours became very difficult with all the leaves etc being blown in by the gale. All fish caught on ledgered pellet. Another thoroughly enjoyable day on a lovely stretch.

3 Barbel

Fished all swims,nothing caught. River flowing really fast and muddy colour. First blank on WUF waters. Thats fishing.

Enjoyable days fishing, fish caught on boilies and pellets.

7 Barbel, 4 Chub