Feedback & Reports

Lyepole continues to fish well - in spite of the low level and a hot, bright day. Steady progress upstream in the morning, with Grayling from most of the runs that I fished. Mostly fish in the 7 - 8" bracket, with a handful of bigger fish. Let's call it 2 dozen. A friend turned up at lunchtime with his gas cooker and lashings of sausages and bacon. Although the intention was to fish downstream in the afternoon, replete with a thoroughly unhealthy lunch, somehow I never quite got around to it. However, my friend - who is very much a 10ft 7wt Reservoir Man - did catch his first ever Grayling with more or less his first exploratory cast with my 7ft 6in 3wt rod

4 Trout, 24 Grayling

Hot day, all the main pools had people swimming, paddling in so choice of spots very limited. All fish in prime condition, the middle sized fish around a pound put up a superb fight.

3 Trout

Not the best day by far but manged a few tried rolling meat bread ect just to try for a bite with nothing untill I switched to a krill boillie then finally started getting soke bites

3 Barbel, 4 Chub

3 anglers fished.
Caught fish steadily throughout the day except 1pm - 4pm when it was very warm and sunny.
Great fun day overall.

6 Barbel, 21 Chub

Water fairly low and bright sunshine. 2 lovely sized trout, 1.5/2lbs both caught on perdigon nymph under a dry cast into pool tails.
Sadly lots of people letting their dogs jump in the river and 3 or 4 families swimming, boating and skimming stones in the big pool by the island. Would have probably had a lot more fish if they were not present.

2 Trout, 1 Chub

Lovely stretch of river and nice day to be out on the banks of the Wye. Contrary to other comments there are lots of places to fish probably 8 spots in the woods and at least 3 in the field and we tried virtually all of them. Water level was low so you could actually get down to water in several places. The fishing was very hard just a couple of very small chub and eels. It was hot but not sure that was reason it fished so hard but we never got a bite from anything other than eels and chublets. Unfortunately there was a mass of green weed coming down the river that covered your line, hooks and feeders and made fishing pretty much impossible. It was a kind of silky weed not the ranunculus that Wye used to be full of. Not sure why this weed is coming down the river this time of year isn't it is too early for it to be dying back water has a slight brown tinge to it so maybe the recent rain washing it through? It did mean you were never confident your bait was fishing properly and constantly had to reel in to clean it off.

3 Chub, 6 Other

4 little Perch all returned safely and in good condition
3 nice trout
All the above fish caught on worm

Cloudy, cool and breezy early in the morning, turning warmer in the afternoon, a lovely days fishing

3 Trout, 4 Other

Hot and busy with kayaks as expected. Plenty of chub showing near surface layers. I was ledgering. Perhaps a float or surface approach may have brought a few more chub.

1 Barbel, 17 Chub

1 Trout

Fished the beach on the float, meat and pellet. Only fished the morning due to weather being very hot which in turn brought
out every body to enjoy the river. Would not pick Sunday and school holiday time if I knew that this spot is where all the locals use it for swimming and sun bathing.
But had a good morning, barbel to 6lb and just under the 8lb on the float, most of the chub 3-4lb great sport

Fishing Passport Note : It is mentioned on the website that during hot days, particularly at weekends, other river users can sometimes be present.

2 Barbel, 15 Chub