Feedback & Reports

We arrived at wonderful Wyebank to find the river with reasonable colour and pace. With stunning scenery, blue sky and sunshine we knew we would be sharing the river with plenty of boat traffic but apart from a couple of guys who capsized (twice!!) everybody was in good spirits.
In the morning we caught some cracking Dace and a lively small Brown Trout but the float fishing switched off as the river started to rise rapidly. The water was considerably colder whilst wading and within a couple of hours boats were replaced by tree trunks and debris...
A switch to feeder found the Barbel on the move in the slacker water and we enjoyed some steady good fishing on this lovely beat once again.

1 Trout, 11 Barbel, 4 Chub, 20 Other

River rising all day - lots of weed making presentation tricky and finding snags inevitable. 2 baby barbel and seven reasonable ones. Always an enjoyable day at Wyebank.

9 Barbel, 3 Chub

Fantastic day trotting for dace boosted by chub/chublets catching at 20-25 fish per hour the dace are in the 6-8oz range and chub/chublets 8oz-1.5lb. The 4 barbel were caught using pellet and feeder 2 around 5lb and 2 baby barbel about 1lb.

4 Barbel, 120 Other

Weather good, water low and clear-plenty of canoeists who were all polite and considerate. Barbel and chub (one over 5lbs)on pellet, 3 small fish on float. Enjoyable day-even though results disappointing.

2 Barbel, 2 Chub, 3 Other

Another great day on the Wye. Fished the bottom pool. River was very low. Heavy canoe traffic. On the other side of the river (unfortunately in front of me) the cows visited several times. Fished till 17:00. All barbel were small but good to see this for the future of this picturesque river. Used feeder tactic. Thank you WUF.

1 Trout, 25 Barbel

Eel

1 Other

An afternoon and evening session from 2.00 pm. River low and clear. Cloudy throughout with an hour's steady rain at first. Started with several bites and a couple of small barbel, but three or four fish lost to hook pulls or line cut on rocks. Fishing then went quiet until the last hour and a half when I had a few more fish up to 6.5 lbs. On a beat that has so many swims in a short length I probably should have explored some more water in the quiet afternoon period - but there's always next time!

6 Barbel, 1 Chub

Started fishing at 7:00, the river was down about 250mm down from Tuesday with about 150mm of the large rock about 50 metres downstream visible. The weather was cloudy with very bright sunny intervals
Caught throughout the day using pellets and feeder but the largest barbel was only 51/2lbs. Caught a trout of about 12oz a dace of about 6oz and foul hooked a bleak. There was a pike charging about scattering the fry in the shallows for most of the day.

1 Trout, 27 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

Apart from fish of 6lb 8oz and 6lb 3oz, most of the barbel were in the 2lb to 10oz range. Both Chub were also small. Although getting to the swim is somewhat treacherous, this is a nice fast flowing stretch of river, and I thoroughly enjoyed my day. I should also mention a gentleman called Geoff, who came for a walk and spent most of the day watching me. Undoubtedly a good angler, he gave me a lot of tips that will improve my chances in the future.

16 Barbel, 2 Chub

DID NOT FISH. I was convinced I had booked Tues Thurs and Friday and did not bother to check. When Carl arrived on Thursday just as I had made my first cast I checked my emails and discovered my mistake. Carl was kind enough to allow me to remain as a spectator for most of the day, which was the next best thing to actually fishing.