Feedback & Reports

Thanks to Tony the river keeper, we avoided the very long walk to the river. He was good enough to come down the track as he saw us arriving and lead us along another track, right to the river's edge. After a promising start on the pylon swims where we caught 8 Barbel and lots of Chub the river died on us as lunchtime approached.
Pellets the best bait, then a few more on the meat.

Our third trip to the Wye this year and the first time it stayed dry - at least until the evening!
The river was down, about 3ft above normal. We wasted time looking for a swim on the lower section, rope pool etc still too treacherous because of recent flooding - How do you access the Ford stream pool? We couldn't find it. The fishing is double bank - but no access or parking shown on map for the far bank?
Anyway, we fished the top end, and while the fishing was slow with long periods between bites we eventually ended up 15 barbel to 9 1/2lbs, with the rest between 6 - 8lbs, plus a few chub.
Another most enjoyable but challenging day.

My first trip to courtfeild, what a fantastic day I had. I looked for a swim with a bit of comfort to be honest after sitting in the mud and skating around on it all afternoon the day before. The first 5 casts produced 1 chub, 3 barbel and 1 lost. What a start. By 12 noon I had caught 10 barbel 5 chub. This can't continue i thought? By 3.45pm I was on 16 barbel, 6 chub, then it slowed down catching 1 more before I went at 8.45pm. The final score was 17 barbel to 8lbs and 6 chub to 5lbs 3oz, with a few lost to hook pulls snags etc ,all on pellet and boilie and open end feeder. Great to be able to speak to someone like Don who literally knows the river inside out,enjoyed the chat. Last thing I even managed to catch a barbel within seconds of a canoe going over the top of my bait with one of the chaps in the canoe playing a banjo. You never quite know whats going to happen with a days fishing on the wye!

River very high and pretty unfishable with no real pools or features visible. Wading difficult due to flow. Some colour in the water. Caught one very small brown trout at the downstream end of the beat close to bank in a slower section. About 6 inches long. Seemed v healthy. Caught on Shuttlecock Buzzer. Heard a couple of fish leaping.

River up about 35cm from our previous day on Sugwas which was no surprise after the heavy rain over night. Having not fished this beat before it took a little while to settle and two rods had 2 Barbel each on pellet feeder using a mixture of hook baits.
Will be back again in the future and hopefully then it will be dry enough to take the car up the track.

Conditions were very difficult with the river running 5ft over summer level. In the conditions there were only a few swims available. We settled at the lower end of the beat and caught a number of barbel and chub on a variety of baits. We called it a day when the rain made the banks too dangerous. I would like to revisit this beat in normal conditions. Access was very good with only a short walk required from either parking area and the swims are clearly defined and marked.

Arrived at lunchtime and was very happy find Don near the entrance ready to point us in the right direction and give us some helpful tips. A surprisingly warm, partly sunny day and the river only rose 6 inches. 1 rod had 4 barbel (all 4-6lb) and 4 chub up to 4lb from the swim at the end of the path from Severn Trent parking bay. Other rod had 6 barbel from the swim at the end of the beat, 2 up from rod 1. All over 6lb including 2 at 7lb 10oz - one of which happened to be a first ever barbel for the angler. All caught with Ellipse pellet haired, 3-4oz feeders loaded with groundbait/hemp/pellet mix. A cracking day.

18 barbel and 8 chub all on pellet. Only 2 fished this time as 2 of the party did not fancy the trek to the fishery, but to those that did the fishing were not disappointed. Very glad that this fishery has been opened to all.

1&2 both produced trout to 3/4lb and two better specimens encountered briefly on terrestrials.

6 or 7 Small WBT and 4 or 5 grayling, two of which in the 14-16inch range. Most taken on an LT Klink, with a couple falling to upstream nymph (HE) when the rain came in at around 3pm.