Feedback & Reports

Beautiful sunny day, but I fished swims with tree cover providing shadow. Water had some colour and a little bit of weed coming down, but pretty easy to fish. Used a caged feeder with groundbait, hemp and pellets, with either pellet or meat on the hook. 7 chub to 4lb 4oz and 6 barbel from 5lb 7oz up to 9lb. Barbel came from 3 different swims and throughout the day. There were quite a few swims at water level which were very easy to get down to, with plenty of room to fish and cast from. Brilliant day so will be back soon.

6 Barbel, 7 Chub

Methods used for fishing - groundbait feeder pellet. Conditions dry and river level dropping.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub

Ground bait feeder and pellet .
River conditions - river level dropping.

2 Barbel

5 Barbel, 10 Chub

Nice venue - enjoyable fishing. Challenging drive to pegs with steep hill on tracks through fields, van only just made it back up (though no problem for SUVs) - be careful in the wet as potential to get stuck. Overall a good days fishing in a lovely setting but not so many fish between 4 people.

3 Barbel, 3 Chub, 1 Other

River was high and faster paced

No fish

One small barbel. Two decent chub - biggest 4lb 4oz. One eel. All caught fishing quite close in to the near bank as there was a lot of debris coming down the river - at one point a whole tree around 20ft long came down the river sideways!

1 Barbel, 2 Chub, 1 Other

Cheech caught two barbel and one Chub, Chong blanked.
River rising with lots of weed and debris racing through. Still a cracking day.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Did not fish.
We took a look at the whole fishery, and had a chat with the two others on the fishery. We thought that the limited number of swims gave little to choose from, particularly with anglers on the opposite bank. It may be that wye and usk could consider restricting the rods allowed on the beat to just a couple.
However within the hour the river had risen about six inches with so much stuff pushing through you couldn't keep a line in the water. this ranged from clumps of weed to whole trees!

Difficult to access a good swim here, there could be some nice spots but the best places to fish right now are all cattle drinks(!)
Weather turned for the worse and so left early, 1 knock in the morning.