Feedback & Reports

Second day on beat, fished in the woods again and into the fast water and peg running out of the the fast water. Different day today regards weather torrential rain most of the day but did not stop the fishing. Chub bites straight away on pellet and meat, landed my first Wye barbel on the bomb and my second a little later on the drop again on meat. 15 chub myself on feeder or bomb meat, pellet and Bollie. My Dad continued on pellet feeder and pellet band 4 barbel and lost five in the rocks biggest 8.5lb with 10 chub different sizes. Amazing two day fishing ending a great week on the Wye, very special place and great to be back!

6 Barbel, 25 Chub

Fished from first light until 11am chub first cast then pretty much relentless until about 10-30 no fish under 2lb and two of 5lb 9oz and 6lb 3oz ,fished the wooded section using various baits trying to locate the barbel but to no avail the chub intercepted them straight away.I planned to return in the evening but scaling heart attack hill twice in a day deterred me.

34 Chub

Very low and clear conditions, 30 degrees heat however we fished in the woods in the fast water which was full of fish! My dad fished pellet feeder and caught on the drop back with 8 barbel and 7 chub and I caught 8 chub fishing pellet feeder and Billie on the hook. Great beat fishing tomorrow as well so hopefully pull a few more fish!

8 Barbel, 15 Chub

Lowest I’ve ever seen it?

3 Barbel, 7 Chub

Hottest day of the year and the river was very low. Bring on the rain.

Fishing was slow, but lost 4 good fish to frayed tackle on the rocks.

4 Chub

Swans are very hungry The nation should stop eating chicken then we can have our river back?…..??????????????

3 Barbel, 9 Chub

Weather lovely, river still very low. Lots of eventful canoeing episodes, groundings and capsizes. All very entertaining. Fishing fairly slow to start. I challenged my self to catch on 4 methods, floating crust, trundled meat, stick float and feeder. I have tried this on a number of occasions but never succeeded on all four until today. Steve caught a PB Barbel so a fine day was had by all. Most fish came in the last two hours of light.

2 Barbel, 24 Chub

Lovely days fishing, water very low and clear but managed to catch throughout of the day

4 Barbel, 10 Chub

River low.- took option of faster water in wooded section. Barbel just refused to show. Still - a good beat, and hope for better results next time.

1 Barbel, 14 Chub

1st time on this stretch decided to fish the woods and tackle the climb round. Weather was a fair bit cooler than of late and the river painfully low. Started about 2pm and fishing my usual baits & tactics was expecting the ravenous chub to be crawling up the rod! Not to be the 1st fish I had was a barbel about two hrs later on corn bounced through the swim. Had a couple of chub one of which snagged me as I was answering the call of nature and took about 10mins to free after patiently waiting to release itself. Finished off around 7pm with a barbel just shy of 8lb when the bait again was twitched through the swim this also snagged me temporarily in a different area to where I’d been casting on the far side! When fishing here I’d strongly advise using drop off/breakaway leads and suitable tackle as all the stretches I’ve fished this season on the W&U this has been the worst for snags! Enjoyable day and would return here but unlikely to fish the steep wooded area in the wet!

2 Barbel, 2 Chub