Feedback & Reports

River spot on with just a touch of colour. 1st time on this beat and as the description suggests, perfect for early season sport. Fast water with some deeper parts and a lovely pool at the downstream end. Started on the feeder with pellet and corn on the hook. Caught from the off and managed 15 Chub between 3 and 4lb with loads of 8oz fish. Lost a barbel early on then had a 6lb barbel and a couple of Chub rolling meat at the lower limit. Managed a couple more Barbel in the afternoon but the evening feeding spell never really happened. Also had an Eel on Sweetcorn! Spoke to the landowner Charles who was happy to help with info and questions. A lovely beat in lovely countryside, I will be back!

3 Barbel, 15 Chub, 1 Other

Sun and cloud, warm, low 20's. 4 barbel, best 6lbs on pellet and feeder. 18 Chub up 5lbs on pellet. Beware of 3rd swim on road side below willow stump, there's a snag at 45 degree's downstream. I lost some tackle here.

4 Barbel, 18 Chub

Fished for a couple of hours in the morning. Nothing caught or seen but very pleasant morning.

Nothing doing except rain, hail, thunder and lightening!

Nice little beat/tail of water. Sadly no fish caught but I saw a Silver ghost moving through the pool I was fishing around 10-15lb.

This beat is fast and shallow. Tried all fishable spots and managed to find one barbel about 7lb at the end of the day from the last swim on the L/H bank. It put up a great fight in the fast swirling water.

1 Barbel

Got to the river around 12.30pm and looked ok but still pulling through hard. Phoned in the booking - £20.75! Bit heavy for 1/2 a day. Anyway, fed a few swims over the bridge with bread mash and 10+ elips pellets in each. Set up just the 1 feeder rod and opted to fish off the fast water rolling the bait through! Nothing 1 1/2 hrs later. Put a 4oz lead on and fished static for another hour! Blank. This was repeated on the 3 lower swims. 4hrs, not a touch so decided to up sticks and move to the bottom swim road side (normally a banker) never fed anything! Fished with bread, meat and pellet, not a sniff! On a poor day like this watching the black vultures work the river you really do wonder "what are they, what are they feeding on and what is their presence doing to the winter fishing" here on the Wye. Hope it picks up by the 16th June.

Fished the first 2 pegs on the right bank, used a wide range of baits (from maggots to pellets). Only caught 2 chub on maggots. River was low and clear.

2 Chub

Got on bank around 12-30, river still high but the muddy colour had eased and you could see vegetation 2ft down. Chose first swim over bridge, pellet/feeder fishing on a hair rig was a real pain to get back, because the flow pushed feeder and hook deep into bank side snags!! Opted for straight lead (4oz) and a paste of ground Elips pellets and a binding agent.

I used a big heavy bait dropper to put in regular small numbers of 10mm pellets, nothing for the first 4hrs !!!
then 2 reasonable Barbel all in the last hour. Quite happy with that bearing in mind it was very cold last night and the barometer was well over 1012. Think I will give the maggot a go next time, may induce a few silver fish to feed ?

2 Barbel

Arrived about 11am and fished the right hand bank having fished the left yesterday.
Catch: 3 Barbel, 7lb 12oz, 6lb 13oz, 8lb 4oz (all from the first swim) using pellet and feeder to 10lb line.

3 Barbel