Feedback & Reports

Good conditions but a struggle….one small barbel at the stairs and one nice one of 9lb 10oz in the second field….would have expected a bit more give the colour of the water and temperature but the better fish was a trip saver.

2 Barbel, 3 Chub, 1 Other

Two fished, challenging conditions with river up and racing through and with short nature of this beat it was difficult to find any real slacks to fish. I did manage 1 barbel (8lb) and 1 Chub (4.5 lb) fishing Close in from middle swim which we had to share in the afternoon. Just about held bottom by adding 2 ounce lead to my 4.5 ounce feeders. Tough day but my biggest ever barbel made it all worth while.

Top tip - Park in the lay-by and walk to river in wet conditions. I initially tried to park just inside entrance gate and it took me 10 mins to get it back outside after wheels getting no traction on wet ground and churning up the mud.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

We drove down the track to the gate at the bottom. The track was in all seriousness dangerous. Water had scoured out a lot of the track. We decided to abandon as we were worried about getting back up. Also the field was waterlogged. Fortunately we all had 4WD but it was difficult to get back up with the big ruts.
You can park at the top of the hill but we’re all getting on a bit so it wasn’t an option. We will go back but in the summer.

A tough but enjoyable day on the river running well over a metre higher than normal. Only one or two swims available where feeders / leads could hold in the slacks. We think this is probably a better summer venue given lack of high water swims. Nonetheless the weather was good on the day and we will be back next year!

8 Chub

13 Trout, 28 Grayling

8 Chub

River high, brown and fast! No barbel unfortunately but a good day. Stayed at the Annexe, Stay on the Wye, 500m from the fishing, great place to stay

3 Chub

River was well up and pushing through hard, banks were extremely slippery, hazardous really, almost impossible to find anywhere to fish. Only 2 anglers attempted to fish, not sure exactly what is classed as a wash off?, a very difficult day. Hardly worth the 5 hours travelling time.

3 Chub

Finished the season with yet another blank. This is without doubt the worse season in 30 years of having a boat permit up the Usk and next season will be worse again as no boat fishing is allowed next year due to essential work being carried out on the boat launching area.

River was at 2.2m all day and bombing through. The pegs at the top end were not fishable but the first 2 fields still had plenty of pegs. We rotated the pegs and caught decent chub throughout the day, not sure why we didn’t get any barbel as it looked good for them.

14 Chub