Feedback & Reports

2 WBT about around the 1lb mark on a PTN (Released). Water icy cold after overnight snow on the hills. Plenty of olives coming off but no rises. Lovely few hours. (Note to self: slight wader leak at the end of one season has tendency to result in a soaking leg at the beginning of the next.)

An unbeleivable warm day for time of year. Fishing in bright sunshine and shirt sleeves. Water only 7 degrees but still managed 3 Barbel around the 8 to 9 pound mark. A lovely stretch but limited in swims due to nature of high banks.

Blank day, LDO hatching from 11-2, no rises seen & failed to tempt a fish on spiders or nymphs.

Glorious sunny morning on the Wye; no fish until a strong olive hatch around noon, when a small grayling took a tung-head GRHE, and things looked promising. Then the kayaks came, a lurid multi-coloured flotilla of them (very polite paddlers I should say). End of fishing in such clear water; all went dead and so I packed up for lunch. At tea time on the flats at the top, trout were rising to emergers. Hooked into but lost what felt a decent one, on a hairs ear klink.
A mixed day all in all.

Very poor day only three chub and two good roach taken on meat and maggot.

Pouring with rain when I arrived which made the banks very slippery. Luckily it stopped and the wind dried the banks enough to make them accessible again.
Chub caught in 4 different swims and 11 barbel from only one swim. That swim produced only barbel and was the only place I caught them! I also missed a bite in the first swim I fished recast and had a sharp pull then nothing brought it in to find the hook was gone, pike perhaps or bitten off by a chub.
I met the farmer who expressed concern about lost tackle injuring his sheep. He had picked up at least 2 lures with treble hooks that could have cost the lives of his livestock.

An unbeleivable warm day for time of year. Fishing in bright sunshine and shirt sleeves. Water only 7 degrees but still managed 3 Barbel around the 8 to 9 pound mark. A lovely stretch but limited in swims due to nature of high banks.

An unbeleivable warm day for time of year. Fishing in bright sunshine and shirt sleeves. Water only 7 degrees but still managed 3 Barbel around the 8 to 9 pound mark. A lovely stretch but limited in swims due to nature of high banks.

We caught one very nice brown trout of about 3 lbs. It was released unharmed.

A very enjoyable day out. The river was at normal levels and quite clear and the weather was generally kind to us although we did have a downpour late in the piece. This beat is excellent with lots of varied water and very good access, the major problem is that you are spoilt for choice on where to fish. We had around a dozen barbel with the best going mid 7's. All were taken on pellet or small cubes of meat. We also had the pleasure of sharing the beat with a thoroughly nice guy from Essex and I'm pleased to say that he had some success too. In 40 years of angling I can honestly say that, with very few exceptions, every angler I've ever met has been friendly and helpful and I think that says it all about angling and anglers in general!