Feedback & Reports

Sunny and warm, river slightly coloured but not high. Yes the beat is 1.5 miles long but note the description of this beat states that 'access in and out of the river is tricky in the wooded areas'. An understatement! We found that accessing the entire beat was impossible and couldnt find a way through the 'jungle' in either the upper or lower woods and couldn't get to the lower weir which was disappointing. However, there were still plenty of nice runs and open areas to fish. There wasn't a great deal showing but we managed 2 small grayling in the day and 3 browns to around 1lb at the death on small tups and tung head nymphs.

Wonderful afternoon on a beautiful stretch of river. Fish were hard to come across though and after loosing one fish on a gold head nymph in some fast water I didn't manage to catch anything until dusk when a Deers Hair Sedge tucked under the far bank managed to produce a hard fighting fish of about 12 inches. Lovely!

One Barbel and 7 Chub caught, all were in good condition and of varying sizes. All of the fish were caught on boilies and pellets and released after capture. Fishing was slow as the river was quite high.

Another lovely day out on the Wye, bright ccnditions did not help fishing but a few Barbel to around 7lb graced my net on a variety of baits.

9 barbel 4lb to 7lb 8oz & 4 chub all caught on pellet.

Saw a few salmon splashing but no pulls. Spectacularly beautiful beat.

We arrived to find it carrying a little extra water, three anglers chose to fish swims in top field and two went to lower end. Morning started well for one angler having 5 barbel by lunch time in lower swim and one in top field 2 barbel by lunch.We had a lunch break then resumed fishing the afternoon and evening seemed more productive with several more fish caught We ended up with 30 barbel to 9lbs 12oz and a handful of chub. All fish came to pellet and feeder tactics. Fantastic days fishing, very picturesque venue.

Second day of our trip and the river was still up and coloured. All three rods took plenty of barbel and chub. The fish seemed a better average size than on other beats, but we had to ring the changes to keep getting bites, the fish seemed quite wary.

23 trout caught up to 1lb 4oz, 11 on dries (klinkhamer), 12 on Gold Head Hares Ear.

River looked good with about an extra 6inches of water running through and a tinge of colour but the fish were not feeding. Lost two fish to the rocks in the woods so moved back to the meadow for last light had two fish on pellet.