Feedback & Reports

Evening session, pellet paste & meat were successful bait.
Mandarin duck brood were a pleasure and distraction, watch your bait boxes!

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Great spot, I took two novices to try to get them their first barbel and succeeded! I lost a good fish and the ones caught were lovely healthy fish around 2lb each. They were unhooked in the water before release as it was a hot day.

2 Barbel

I didn’t arrive until the evening . It’s a beautiful place. Access to the water is poor and it is plain that nobody fishes most of it because the banks are overgrown and the path has been eroded in place. I was using a dry fly but no fish rose the whole evening so I tried nymphs. I didn’t see a single fish. It is primarily a series of old salmon pools with metal stances at the key spots on the named pools. Perhaps a young and agile grayling exert might have done better. I’m 76 and wasn’t happy to wade much.

Fished the evening and had 7 chub using sweetcorn and pellets.

7 Chub

Fished from 5am and started picking up Chub to 4lb on free lined meat from faster water. Was lucky enough to have the whole beat to myself until lunchtime so was able to move around and fish a few runs until I settled on a pool for the afternoon which resulted in 4 barbel and 2 eels. Again all on meat.
A lovely day as these were my first ever barbel.

4 Barbel, 16 Chub, 2 Other

Breezy and sunny today, water temperature 22 deg C. We headed for the island stretch and almost immediately started catching chub. Also two barbel one 7lb 4oz, the other around 4.5lb.
We caught on GB feeder, straight lead, float and rolling meat. Pellets, luncheon meat, boilies and sweetcorn all worked as the chub from 1.5lb to 4.3lb gave themselves up. At 6pm we moved to 3 upstream swims but only caught three chub in 3 hours.
A great day on a very picturesque beat!

2 Barbel, 101 Chub, 1 Other

Chub only showing at the stones. Fished for 5 hours until dusk no sign of Barbel. Access very difficult through the fields and woods

27 Chub

First of all the track down to the fishery is managable if its dry. I wouldn't try if its wet. Once on the fishery i was very dissapointed in the lack of swims to go at. It has been neglected, the vast majoraty of swims were overgrown, inaccesable and unfishable. I fished the fast water swim and it looked a great piece of water which on its day must produce a load of fish, unfortunatley not today. If that swim is unavailable you will struggle . It could be a very nice beat but desperately needs a lot of maintainance/ preperaition of existing swims . Currentley it is not worth the cost ot the ticket and i will not be returning to this beat.

Fishing Passport Note : The track down is manageable to most vehicles, even in fairly wet conditions. Low (and high) river levels will usually depict different parts of the fishery that will be inaccessible. That is typical on most Wye beats. It’s left in as natural state as possible being a SSSI / SAC river.

2 Chub

2 Chub

1 Trout