Feedback & Reports

Conditions bright sunny river very low and crystal clear.Spent the morning on the feeder without a single bite. Broke out the trotting gear around mid day had a couple of Chub and about 30 Dace (lost count really). Swithed back to the feeder for the last couple of hours and caught a small Barbel right at the end of the session.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub, 30 Other

Water was the lowest I've seen on the Wye since we've fished here over the last 7 years. The weather was hot and sunny. Despite moving to several pegs over the beat and using different methods, we only managed 3 small chub. Hope we do better at Middle Hill Court tomorrow.

3 Chub

Not the best start to the day, whilst traversing the path to the lower section I slipped and tumbled 25 feet down the bank, breaking my rod in the process!(lucky I had a spare). The water had a hint of colour and managed to catch several fish - grayling all 10 to 12" and biggest trout was about 1.75 pound - and to cap the day off, I fell over in 3 feet of water! Sometimes 1 wading stick is just not enough!

4 Trout, 13 Grayling

4 barbel, 2 chub and several dace on float.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub, 20 Other

Fishing very hard. Water so low, even the ever reliable Wye chub seemed absent... so once again everything was great except the fishing. Thought it would pick up in early evening as the day before but no luck. However we were given almost hourly demonstration of how to do it by the resident kingfisher. We hoped he'd do a Crabtree and perch at end of a rod but no luck with that either :))

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

Dry, overcast morning. Rain from 2pm until 3.30pm, quite heavy at times. Mild, AT from low 20s to mid 20s just before rain, when it became cooler. River very low, WT 14.5C. Not much activity. Occasional rising trout. Caught 6 up to 1lb 4oz on parachute Adams, gold head PTN and green nymph. Better fish not moving. Nice to see flashes of colour of a pair of kingfishers.

6 Trout

Fished the beat from 9.30am to about 5.00pm. Within those few hours we experienced mist, full bright sunshine, light drizzle and heavy rain. The first hour proved to be most productive with some of the best trout (about a pound) and grayling (maybe three quarters of a pound) coming to flies trundled through the faster broken water. By midday bright sunshine slowed things down before they picked up again in the mid-afternoon drizzle. The heavy rain coloured the water remarkably quickly in the final hour.
Very little in the way of surface activity beyond the acrobatic Salmon and small trout in Erwood Pool. All our fish fell to weighted nymphs and spiders. As many were missed or shook themselves free as came to hand. So it was a pleasant and satisfying way to bid farewell to the 2014 season.

15 Trout, 4 Grayling

What a day to finish the trout season. Water v low and clear at .37m so elected to fish for trout as did John Lewis. I fished dry for first hour from 12 midday as fish were rising with John on subsurface nymph. John had one and a few tugs on the nymph with no fish for me on a succession of dry flies.
I switched to a green/yellow deer hair sedge on the point and a green/black size 14 waterhen bloa on the dropper down the wood stream which yielded 14 fish, mainly large salmon par and one brown of 8oz. John has another 2 par on a single black and silver nymph. Temp dropped sharply at 4pm and no further success but good day's sport.
Looks like some rain Sun/Mon but unlikely to be enough for Salmon.

17 Trout

Struggled to tempt many trout, although I think most that rose to the dry spotted the line and sheared off at the last minute. Went very small to catch 2 at 8", but I hope the river gets a good clear out over winter!

2 Trout

1 Trout