Feedback & Reports

What a day!!! Took a couple of hours to find them but when I did, they were hungry! 19 barbel in a day, wow! Only stopped as I ran out of bait. Feeder fished pellet for all fish, weed made holding out in the coloured water for more than a few minutes very testing but no compliants on the action recieved! Many thanks WUF for the chance to fish this great river, shame its so far from home. Stayed at Symonds Yat Rock Lodge, very nice, ideal distance for the beats in this area.

19 Barbel

Great day, 11 barbel to 8.10lb and 6 chub all over 4lb, best 4.08lb and one eel. Pellet feeder doing the best. River coloured and pushing a little making the floating weed a pain but fishable. Many thanks WUF.

11 Barbel, 6 Chub, 1 Other

Barbel about 6lb, Chub up to a pound - river slightly down compared to when we came last year. All fish taken on sweetcorn.

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

River looked perfect but very difficult and no rising fish or visible hatch except a few BWO.

3 Trout, 3 Grayling, 7 Other

Perfect conditions but no rising fish. Most fish to induced dry fly speculative casting. Lots of tugs on nymph so plenty of fish. All smallish 6-10oz. Lack of fly life on both beats a concern.

4 Trout, 4 Grayling, 8 Other

Despite the rain of the weekend, fishing with dry fly was possible. I fished the beat from 9am-4pm. Fly of the day was a little hairwing sedge size 16. The biggest trout (7) were about 14 inches or so. Thank you Wye & Usk Foundation, specially thanks to Allyson for her help.

23 Trout

Fished above the orchard to avoid cows in the lower beat, was disappointed with number of swims available, approximately 4 plus the cattle drink swim. Could not believe the amount of rubbish left everywhere. Cleaned up a fair amount, including cutlery for pot noodles as I walked the bank. Some staked swims are completely inaccessible and for £22 per day we should be at least have more options. Could definitely do with a "working party" to make the fishery a better place. Enough of the whinging, back to the fishing. Between us we had 1 barbel 7lb and 8 chub, all on lamprey pellet either feeder fished or straight legered with pva bags. Fished better in the evening from around 5 o'clock onwards. Lovely surroundings to enjoy a day on the Wye and will hopefully be back to do it all again.

WUF note - This beat is booked to have access improvement work and swims opened up this week.

1 Barbel, 8 Chub

Fished for two hours and had two barbel in the 5-6 pound bracket. Lots of canoeists and families picnicing on the beach - but they were all very pleasant.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

4 Barbel