Feedback & Reports

A great day's fishing in superb weather. Unfortunately, the catching was not so good despite a slight rise and some colour.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub

Gorgeous day, river up a little. 2 nice barbel to 6lb on pellet and 5 chub to 4lb. Colin helpful and friendly as ever.

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

No fish but a few salmon showing.

The river looked perfect and the chubb were feeding but not the barbel with only four caught in the day. A beautiful setting and much more to explore. We will return.

4 Barbel, 20 Chub

Wonderful day as always on a stunning piece of Wye and Usk Foundation water. Thanks again to all the team. Plenty of action throughout the day from accessible swims.

5 Trout

As first visit to beat, spent a long time walking and assessing conditions before deciding to fish Marl bed, but in very bright conditions with water running low and clear, fish clearly were not co-operating. Moved a few times to try different swims including very snaggy Bridge swim where rigs lost. As had long drive back home, left just after lunch with no fish caught.

3 Barbel, 5 Chub

1 x 30 inch coloured hen fish on size 8 Bann Shrimp double from the Boat Pool. The river was low (11 inches on the Llanstephan gauge) but it was absolutely pouring with rain this morning and a little increase in colour and the smell of fresh water coming down may have been enough to bring a resident onto the take. That's it from me for a while; we're off to Spain on holiday (without fishing rods)!

1 Salmon

Tough day again following on from previous day but had a rather bizarre occurrence. Rained non-stop from first light until about 1300 hrs then turned into T-shirt weather until the sun went down. Started in Fallen Tree but moved to Meadow mid-morning. Hooked a slow moving powerful barbel first cast in meadow (snag swim) which unfortunately found a rock and my hook-link parted. Felt like a very good fish so wasn't best pleased. Moved to swim next to waterworks mid-afternoon (on Don's advice). Hooked a barbel on third cast and made sure it didn't find any underwater obstructions this time. When I went to unhook it there were two hooks in its bottom lip, one of them attached to my severed hooklink from the morning! It was mine beyond any doubt (I even counted the number of turns on my knotless knot as a final check). How amazing was that? I was using barbless hooks in case anyone is wondering so was surprised it hadn't dropped out. Two bites all day and both from the same fish. Took away the frustration of losing it. Was fairly convinced I had lost a double but I hadn't as it went 8 lbs 5 ozs. PS left my rod rests in the snag swim!

1 Barbel