Feedback & Reports

River very low fished normal pellet and feeder tactics as always on this stretch, fished in every swim for the entire courtfield stretch only to have two 3lb Eels at midday on first day. After walking the river and seeing a lot of fish spawning decided to fish first couple of swims on Courtfield section from Wyebanks end. I free lined bread and after a bit of perseverance had a 4ld chub quickly followed by a 5lb 7oz lump followed by another eel of at least 2lb. Will try and book again when we have more water in the river. Both morning saw salmon topping in the meadow section.

2 Chub, 3 Other

Fished wood crib from 2.30pm till 8.30pm. No bites till 7pm then 2 chub and 4 barbel in 1.5 hours.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

Having fished the wye for a few years now we expected to catch even though the river was VERY low and clear with bright sunshine, but we only had 1 barbel of 6lb and 1 chub both on 8mm halibut pellet.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Bright sunshine, low clear river, very few bites, lots and lots of canoes, 2 barbel and 3 chub on halibut pellet.

2 Barbel, 3 Chub

Caught chub to 1lb, dace and bleak steadily all afternoon on the waggler. Expected the barbel fishing to be hard and was proved right by a biteless couple of hours in the evening.

35 Chub, 20 Other

Fished the woods from 7am to 5pm. Barbel remained elusive on this trip but managed to get 5 chub, best 5lb 6oz.

5 Chub

Reading all the recent catch reports it seemed that the barbel would be crawling up the banks! however, our day was the hottest day of the year, being 31 degrees. We expected the going to be tough but we weren't disappointed with the 4 beautiful chub we had in the evening. It was nice to fish a new beat of the wye and it gave us a good idea of the river's pools and snags which is invaluable when fishing in higher water conditions. We will return!

4 Chub

Fished the wood section. 5 good chub caught to one rod. Some nice eels caught and small dace. No barbel which was due to the low river conditions. Lots of canoe traffic which did not help the fishing and we even had people swimming through our swims.

15 Chub, 10 Other

The ducks kept us company all day but unfortunately so did the continuous (and I mean continuous) canoes. They were still coming down well past 6pm.
Some clearly did their best not to disrupt us. Many were frankly inept (some triggered by alcohol), making it impossible to fish at times. A stark reminder as to why we tend to avoid Saturdays in July on certain parts of the river, especially when the weather is ‘good’.
Despite our best efforts and persistance, changing methods throughout the day and fishing until 9:30pm, we couldn’t off-set the difficult conditions (bright sunshine, clear water) and frequent disruptions.
CH made an all too brief contact with a solitary Barbel and hooked and lost a Chub on cheese-paste very late on. RE generated some interest in his float-fished sweetcorn but ultimately the river and conditions beat us both.
Only booked a few days prior to the weekend so faced limited availability. We expected a generally challenging day and that’s exactly what we got. We look forward to next time, but maybe not this stretch on a summer weekend whilst the sun is shining. River 1 Fishermen 0.

Fished the Meadow swims as none available in the woods from 2pm until late. Only caught eels.

4 Other