Feedback & Reports

Another very enjoyable day on our favourite beat. Fished 3 hours before going back for lunch at 1.30 which produced 4 Barbel, 2 of these going 9.11 and 9.7. Started again late afternoon with 7 further Barbel including 3 over 8lbs. Fished the gully in the faster water using mainly PVA bags. Hoping for similar success tomorrow when we return!

11 Barbel, 3 Chub

Nice place hard to locate fish water v low colour ok parking not good entrance with bad holes take care if u go?

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

Another 1st for me on this beat and another successful session it turned out to be! The day was warm and cloudy at times with a bit of colour in the water . Access to swims is generally good with the main push of the river towards the near bank. Parking in the field is the only issue as the access is badly rutted. Fished in the afternoon until about 7.30pmish ( one day I’ll fish the prime time!) and ended up with 6 barbel to just over 9lbs and 4 chub to just shy of 5lb all fish coming to mini boilies or meat . The barbel all fought like demons in the near bank gulleys and came from 3 different swims. Another enjoyable day on a W&U stretch and one I would definitely return to !

6 Barbel, 4 Chub

Quality chub to 4 .7 LB on pellet and meat.

1 Barbel, 8 Chub

This being my third visit to beat in 3 years and receiving a ‘beating’ from it last time out with only a handful of Chublets , today How Caple was back to its best!
Having chose to start in a favourite swim of mine at bottom of track I cast in at first light and within 30 seconds tip wrapped around and 4lb 4oz Chub hit the net ! Another small chub of about a pound over the next hour and it was time to move on (feeder/meat).
Moving and searching around the faster more bubbly flow I banked first 2 Barbel the biggest being about 6 (on pellet) .
Having pre baiting a few more swims I moved on and settled in one which I was advised to by Surrey father, son and family combo who kindly chatted and advised me on visit the night before .
After a very naughty two and a half hour cat nap due to ridiculous levels of excitement the night before and waking every hour to look at clock in fear it won’t go off at 4am , I finally awoke at 0312 but by lunchtime was shattered !
After a dozen canoes and sun dropped a bit I got bites regular and banked the rest of my fish , the biggest Barbel being 8lb 8oz, all on meat.
If you lightened up your approach ( not advised ) and used smaller baits I would hate to think how many chub you could catch , the beat really is thick with them and great fun they are too !
Stunning beat , one of the best , water levels not bad for time of year , thank you Wye and Usk for ANOTHER memorable day and fully expect to be back here again in 2022!

6 Barbel, 7 Chub

5 Barbel, 20 Chub, 15 Other

2 Barbel, 5 Chub, 20 Other

4 Barbel, 20 Chub

River low, hot and bright through the day, fish first up and evening, hardly a touch through the day. Barbel to meat and pellet, Chub to meat and pellet, mainly meat. Best Barbel 8lb. the other was an Eel.

2 Barbel, 12 Chub, 1 Other

First time on this stunning beat, so gave it a good walk. There seemed to be a couple of nice swims at the top end as it steadied out after the shallow water, with a decent flow and foam line to the middle / far side. It looked shallower but decided to fish the pacier water anyway, the inside line looked v deep. My rod was almost pulled of the rest first cast with a barbel about 8lb and then my plan to explore the whole beat went out the window with plenty of chub (albeit some small around the pound mark, but most around 3/5lb) and another 2 barbel.

I decide to head downstream and my plan was to fish the fast water at the bottom of the beat where it tears through on the inside line in a very deep gulley for about 3 swims. I never got there however as i spotted a rather hard to access swim just after some shallow where again there was some broken water and pace towards middle and far side. After losing 3 barbel in first 3 chucks i found where the snag was and managed to avoid it, picking up 3 more barbel and some more chub till dusk. It was obviously where some fish were but was a bit hairy landing them... even with a five metre net you had to get them to with inches of the bank to reach down and net them, not the safest swim I've fished but there was obviously a nest of barbel sat there so it had to be done. I will definitely be back. but please put a rope in the aforementioned swim and cut some steps. ;-)

6 Barbel, 20 Chub, 1 Other