Feedback & Reports

1st fishing trip in nearly 8 years! Only 3 fish but nice to be back on the river. Started at 3pm, 1st cast saw a chub on the hook before I had time to place the rod in the rest! Foch of 3.5/4lb. Barbel came at 4.45 and 7pm. Didn't fish the peg I wanted as another angler in the opposite side was wading half way out in the shallows and fishing Caple Court side..... And pulled out 28 fish! 9 of which were caught whilst I was there!
Lovely session and looking forward to my return visit in a couple of weeks, hopefully I'll get the swim I want.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Beautiful spot. 3 Barbel caught in the middle of the day on pellet using PVA bags too. Moved around a few swims until located some fish. Faster water swims are better.

3 Barbel

Fished 6pm to 9pm six pristine barbel biggest 9lbs all caught on pellet feeder.

6 Barbel

Fished the afternoon and early evening, alternated between 3 swims but mainly caught from 1, only weighed the largest which happened to be the 2nd fish, 1st was small, weighed 8.6lb, didn't weigh any more, all fish fought really hard but only took a few minutes to recover but kept them a bit longer, the other fish were all in the 5-7lb bracket. Couldn't catch chub at all, trying corn & different pellet, all barbel fell to single 10mm barbel blitz. Very quiet on the canoe front saw 8 all afternoon.

7 Barbel

DS had 13 barbel of various sizes on float fished corn, rest on pellets.

16 Barbel, 2 Chub

The first decent amount of rain was very welcome but not enough to raise or colour the water, although very windy the sun did appear if only for a brief spell, despite this I was very pleased with my first summer trip on the Wye and did manage to locate the fish eventually in a pacey part of the stretch. Feeding Hemp, Halibut pellet and fishmeal ground bait through a swim feeder with a large banded pellet as hook bait this seemed to do the trick. Caught three nice Barbel early on between 4 - 6 pound and lost a couple more at the net. The canoe traffic was constant throughout the day with some very considerate people and other not so ending up in several broken lines. It was a nice stretch of the river with a number of well cut swims but very steep and in places difficult to get near the water. The location information was spot on , thanks to Wye/Usk Foundation, I'll be booking again soon.

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

Being unable to fish a stretch I had booked, I managed to get back on How Chapel again in the afternoon and after sitting through a thunder storm, lashing rain and lighting I managed to get 3 nice Barbel late on with the last looking to be pushing double figures.

3 Barbel

Fished from approx. 3pm until 9pm caught steady from about 4pm in the fast water, lower section . Good day after the disappointment off Thursday.

6 Barbel

Due to circumstance's I could only managed 2hrs in the evening waste off a day but hey ho. Had a couple off knocks but nothing in the net.

Eel

4 Barbel, 1 Other