Feedback & Reports

Arrived to find the river was quite low and clear, and opted for the lower beat. Here I was greeted by the sight of two young otters playing mid-river until mum ushered them away on sensing my presence. There were no mad feeding spells today, but I steadily accumulated a pleasing catch of 10 barbel up to 8lb 4oz. It was very slow to begin with, with no bites for the first three hours, then a steady spell of bites in the middle part of the day, before another dead spell followed by a steady run of bites in the evening. I kept ringing the changes with various types, sizes and shapes of pellet to keep the bites coming. There were quite a number of salmon showing, including one or two larger specimens. I can't help feeling these are keeping the otters well fed, as despite the presence of at least four of our furry friends including the large dog otter, there are still considerable numbers of barbel in the beat, and with little or no sign of otter damage to them.

10 Barbel

This was our second day on the Wye and after a disappointing day at Sugwas we were hoping things would improve. This was our first time at Fownhope and again a lovely stretch of water. We tackled cardiac hill, I'm sure it's a breeze for the fit angler but I would definitely recommend anglers to travel light. We started up in the woods but with the low water struggled to get a bite. We then walked up stream into the open field where the river was deeper and soon started to get bites. We ended up with three barbel biggest 9.3lb and two chub again biggest around 4.0lb all caught on luncheon meat. I'm sure with more water in the river we could have caught more but nevertheless a very enjoyable day.
Thank you W&U

3 Barbel, 2 Chub

Beautiful day on this beat. A lovely Autumn day, plus caught 5 good Barbel and 5 nice Chub on the feeder.
All Barbel were 6lb to 8lb, Chub from 2lb to 4lb. Wonderful day.

5 Barbel, 5 Chub

Good conditions, caught in different swims mostly on luncheon meat.

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

Red letter day on the Wye, barbel galore up to 11lb an chub up to 6lb, majority of fish taken on big 15 mm boilies and various size pellets, we all fished from the woods an there's plenty of swims too, good access an the walk to the woods isn't as bad as people make out, take plenty of bait with you, you'll need it!!

43 Barbel, 16 Chub

First time on this stretch, initially fished the first swim by the hut. After a fishless two hours moved over the hill to d/stream of the woods. Caught throughout the afternoon and evening in a couple of different swims. All fish caught on pellets/PVA bag method. All fish between 3lb 8oz and 6lb 8oz apart from the best at 8lb 2oz.
Great day.

11 Barbel, 2 Chub

The river looked good with a bit of colour still in it, CH went into the woods and had 4 although lost lots of tackle, BT had 1 in the middle of the first field and I had 3 and a couple of chub from by the hut, thanks to the young lad who put me right later in the afternoon and rescued my day, all fish on the normal methods and bait, pellet feeder.

8 Barbel, 2 Chub

Fished in the woods in morning caught 3 barbel to 10lb and 1 chub. Fished on the bend above the Hut in the afternoon caught 6 barbel all fish taken on pellet and meat.

9 Barbel, 1 Chub, 1 Other

Only fished in the afternoon due to travel and weather but managed two barbel and one chub on feeder and pellets. Booked the beat tomorrow,looking forward to a good days fishing great looking part of the Wye

2 Barbel, 1 Chub

Not as prolific as we'd hope today.water levels low and very clear so always a challenge. Moved around to different swims and caught fish in each, but nothing spectacular. Was going to try last couple of hours on one of the croys, but someone was fishing opposite so tried a little bit away and although not confident ended up with a few bonus barbel. An enjoyable day.
Not as much wildlife as at Sugwas Court, but still a good showing of kingfishers, buzzards, bats, and an owl or two hooting.

6 Barbel, 7 Chub