Feedback & Reports

Another great day on the Wye, river well up and coloured 3 foot plus on the river gauge but still found some areas to fish and some feeding fish too! Most to feeder tactics. A few people fishing opposite made some areas a bit tight but a great day all the same. Thank you wuf.

12 Barbel, 8 Chub

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Started off at the lower end of beat where the swims are very difficult to gain access to and had 1 small chub. Then moved to the upper section of beat a lot easier to get into swims and fish....the fishing was slow to say the least, and the weather was terrible - wind and rain with the only rewards for the move was a barbel around the 4lb mark and a decent perch dropped at the net. On a much brighter note if you travel a good way which we do and stay the night before, you wont find anywhere better than "THE OLD MILL" at Hoarwithy, a lovely b&b which I cannot fault and they couldn't have been more welcoming or helpful... coupled with the pub across the road made up for the poor fishing.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

This is one of the nicest beats the Wye & usk have on their books, unfortunately we arrived to find swims defiled by previous anglers litter; sweet corn tins, groundbait bags, drink containers and even open tins still full of luncheon meat! I had filled a carrier bag with rubbish before I even thought about fishing, if I was the land owner and found this it would be the end of the fishing......rant over.
WUF Note: Our sincere thanks to SM of Northants for clearing up the litter left by previous anglers. He is quite right in saying that we risk losing fisheries if anglers do not take litter away with them. Please remember that leaving litter is a breach of booking conditions and could result in the culprit(s) being prevented from making bookings on Passport beats in the future.

5 Barbel, 5 Chub

5 Barbel, 1 Chub

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Arrived to bright, hot conditions at a very easily accesible section. Took a while to walk the stretch and easily find all the cut out swims. Opted to fish the upper part of the beat close to shed, deeper water under your rod tips here. Conditions weren't favourable for barbell but as always with the Wye valley, who cares!! Finished the day with 3 barbel and 3 chub, all on meat. Will be back to explore more beats very soon. Thanku WUF.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub, 1 Other

The river was at normal summer level and the fishing was slightly more difficult than normal as all day lots of weed was coming down, probably due to cutting going on higher up. The better barbel went over 8lbs and chub to 4lb. My son had all the barbel on ledgered pellet. I caught a few fish trotting tares and feeding hemp and I had a nice barbel on paste in the evening that weighed 8lb 2oz. All in all a good afternoons fishing on a warm sunny day, many thanks.

6 Barbel, 8 Chub, 6 Other