Feedback & Reports

Hoped I would see some more water in the river after the lightning storms we had in Worcestershire the day before, but the level was still very low and the cloud cover quickly burnt off to produce another hot, bright day. Sporadic rises from fish through the beat, but tough to find a consistent riser during the day. Picked up a couple of little brownies on leaded nymphs in the deeper pools but struggled with the dry fly until dusk. Fish started rising properly as the light faded and had another 4 fish best about 1/2 pound on a small klinkhammer fished in a couple of the faster glides at the top of the beat.
Saw two of the fattest Kingfishers I have ever seen which are obviously feasting on the large numbers of Parr in the shallows. Unfortunately the beat was disturbed by illegal canoeists who despite my explaining the situation, did not leave, but were at least polite and apologetic.

6 Trout

40cm in length.

1 Chub

Fished the woods from 7am to 5pm. Barbel remained elusive on this trip but managed to get 5 chub, best 5lb 6oz.

5 Chub

VL - who had booked the fishing couldn't come so only 1 rod fishing. River very low, but there was some cloud today which helped. Caught barbel to 8lbs by dropping in here and there.

8 Barbel

Largest fish was chub of 4lbs. Grayling to 1.5lbs. Trout to 1.25lbs. River very low but fish shoaled in streamier well oxygenated runs.

8 Trout, 12 Grayling, 1 Chub, 22 Other

10 chub between us in 9 hours on pellet and meat. River was drastically low. Only managed to find 2 accessible swims after nearly 2 hours searching because of surface weed and overgrown bankside. Very disappointed with the venue. Wont be going back.

10 Chub

River very low and gin clear, weather extremely hot. Hottest day of the year apparently. 1 barbel taken on the quivertip from behind the island. 2 chub lost on the stick trying to bully them out from a nearside snag. Very hard work. A couple of nice carp with their backs out of the water off the island. Nice stretch of river but like all rivers at the minute in desperate need of water.

1 Barbel

I was only able to fish from 10-00am to 5-00pm. Very hot and sunny. Not a proper bite all day. The river was so low the weed was a carpet of white flowers. I think the details of which islands, and from where on them you are allowed to fish could possibly do with a little clarification if possible please. To access them you would need waders but the faster water(and I think you need to find it in these conditions) did seem to be on their far side. Please don't think I'm being critical at all as I believe the Foundation do an excellent job and enable us to fish in fantastic locations we wouldn't even know about.

Reading all the recent catch reports it seemed that the barbel would be crawling up the banks! however, our day was the hottest day of the year, being 31 degrees. We expected the going to be tough but we weren't disappointed with the 4 beautiful chub we had in the evening. It was nice to fish a new beat of the wye and it gave us a good idea of the river's pools and snags which is invaluable when fishing in higher water conditions. We will return!

4 Chub

River very low. Fished early to 2.30pm and never had a bite in any swim. Intended to stay late but driven off the river by kids and canoes. Never book fishing in a heatwave on the 1st wk of school hols again.