Feedback & Reports

Not my best trip there but was my shortest! I arrived at first light fished the bottom pool and had 4 barbel, three of which were about 1lb in weight each at best and one of about 4lb. Also had two chub here. All came in about the first one and a half hours then the bites stopped. Water was very shallow, after hooking a few fish felt the pool was done, with any other barbel that were present, long gone. Needs an extra few feet of water to hold the fish in numbers and not to move them out when a few get caught. Decided to call it a day at about 9am. Walking back to the car I stopped at a couple of the deeper runs and had another 2 chub. All fish came to mixed sized pellets in PVA mesh bags with a long 5ft hook length. Moved to a deeper part of the Wye nearer to where I was visiting family in Hereford, a move that paid off with a few more barbel during the day. Still enjoyed my visit to Wyebank but with hindsight should have booked the Courtfield beat with more water to go at and more depth for the fish to be comfortable at as well. But still, reading the recent catch reports I think I'd had a good day taking all in to account.

4 Barbel, 4 Chub

I had 5 chub to around 4lbs they were all covered in argulus fish lice. Only fished to around lunch time. There was a lot of fish activity where they were crashing around as if trying to rid themselves of the fish lice but not feeding as well as one would have hoped.
The next day we were on the Lower Carrot and Luggsmouth Passport beat, where again there was a lot of fish activity, mainly barbel splashing about as if trying to rid themselves of fish lice.
With the very low water levels it seemed strange that there was a large agricultural water abstraction unit working at the point where the Lugg joins the Wye all the time we were there.
Thanks

4 Chub

River very low. Difficult to work out where we were on the beat despite Don's helpful notes. One decent chub and 5 small ones between both rods. Trotting corn and feeder fishing pellet. Retired at about 2.00 pm.

6 Chub

2 small dace on fly, both returned.

2 Other

Not much fishable water. Be aware, there are lots of canoes in this area as it is an ingress point. Not many fish. Largest chub about 2lb

4 Chub

As previous day on Courtfield the river was too low and the weather too hot, extremely difficult especially with the numbers of canoes and swimmers!! Fished the Saturday and Sunday morning for 1 chub about 3lb. It was good to meet Rudi and break the day chatting about fishing. He was very helpful, a really nice chap!!

1 Chub

A two day visit to Wyebank. Very tough going on both days, the river was very low and clear. Fished the bottom pool both evenings and the Island Pool at dawn on the second morning. The Island Pool produced nothing but the bottom pool produced some fish just as it got dark. Hard work.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Lovely way to spend the evening. Booked the beat for an evening ticket and didn't start until 6.30pm. Fished the bottom end of the beat using pellet and feeder tactics with a cbs river monster boilie. Bites were slow to come on until late evening but I finished up with 6 chub to 4lbs and 2 barbel to 8lb 2oz. Great way to end a busy day!

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

Not quite the rod bending session one was anticipating! First venture onto this lovely rippled beat and some good looking spots. Alas it was not to be! After snaffling a few early morning chub I finally hit upon my quarry around 9 in the morning. Although small, my barbel was perfectly formed and fought for all it was worth. However as the suns rays came into full effect I could see how shallow the stretch was. The final indignaty was a shoal of ducks diving for my free offerings. A sleep and a cheeky glass of the good stuff made no difference and so I bid farewell. Probably a stretch to avoid until we get a little more of God's own water! I sadly left without making Don's acquaintance as well. Never mind, one shall return!

1 Barbel, 6 Chub

The river was very low this time round, and being a Saturday the canoe traffic throughout the day was very heavy. Both of these things made the fishing difficult, but we managed to find a few fish throughout the day.
Caught early on with around 6 chub coming to the float and coarse pellets, eventually moved to the feeder by mid afternoon after a bitelss hour. Plenty more chub fell to the feeder throughout the day, but a lot were in the 1/2lb to 1 1/2lb category, with a few better fish between 3-4lb. Had to wait until dark started to fall before finding the barbel, clearly spooking off the low water at the moment during daytime. 3 barbel from 3lb - 7lb 4oz.
On another note, we had three smaller chub taken by a seriously big pike hanging around the swim, which may have been causing the chub to spook (very finicky bites). The fish was well into double figures and almost unmovable for the few minutes we had it on each time.
Great beat, as always, but perhaps the conditions and the pressure on it at the moment are causing it to slow down a little of late.

3 Barbel, 17 Chub, 2 Other