Feedback & Reports

Well this being the start of our 2 days on the Wye, all three of us where looking forward to it and no better place to get it up and running then here at Fownhope. The fishing was not as good as previous years but we still manages to get few nice fish . M H 17 chub and two very nice roach, all from the far side of Hamburger Hill, all on pellets. As for S G he was fishing in the woods and had 7 barbel and 15 chub, again all on pellets. S M started in the woods had 3 chub then moved down to the first field and ended up with 3 more chub. The down side to the day was again see two other fishermen what they call village rights fishing even though there is a new sign saying passport fishing only this is not the first time this has happen to us so maybe when i book up a beat again we could have it at half price .

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7 Barbel, 38 Chub, 2 Other

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Otter on the stretch. Very patchy no big chub bags.

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

The river looked good, decent flow and some colour. Despite the bright conditions fish came throughout the day.The Chub were quite prolific but a few Barbel did show, the best = 8lb. 7oz. Majority of the Chub in the 3 to 5 lbs. Barbel to
meat and pellet, Chub to meat, pellet but the majority to trotted bred flake, great fun.
Note to WUF, Disappointing to see a Tarzan swing(Much used) on a tree at the bottom of the meadow below the woods,
potential for confrontation, not mention at least 100m totally unfishable. Not good.

5 Barbel, 36 Chub

2 Barbel, 5 Chub

4.30 start, river very coloured and running, no barbel this time but 2 nice chub.

2 Chub

3 Barbel, 7 Chub

River in good condition. Fished 2 x swims above the hut initially on pellets for the first couple of hours and caught 1 x small chub. Switched to meat and lost a nice barbel, then caught a cracking chub followed by some smaller chub.

5 Chub

Fantastic day which made all the driving worthwhile. River at 0.9m on Mordiford gauge, falling slightly during the day. Very slippy underfoot conditions which resulted in a couple of cartoon like falls in the woods and a broken reel handle (luckily spare reel in bag). Fished the Lucky Stone for most of the day and took all fish from there except for one barbel at the tail end of the day in the top field. The swim was as snaggy as ever and the fish count could have been 50% higher. But overall a red letter day.

11 Barbel, 7 Chub

Fished both lower stretch and wooded area (rain had made underfoot conditions treacherous in the woods, (most definitely not recommended without climbing rope as a safety line).
Fish came throughout the day to both pellets & meat.

4 Barbel, 10 Chub