Feedback & Reports

Caught 6 barbel in total from various swims, ranging from 6lb - 8lb 8oz, all fell to luncheon meat, fish boilie, also lost 4 others. An enjoyable day in nice surroundings, and excellent fishing. Thanks to Adam (bailiff) as well for being so helpful!

3 Barbel to 81/2 lbs. River high & coloured.

18th - I caught 8 barbel to 7:15 and my friends caught 3 barbel and 2 chub, and 1 barbel and 1 chub respectively.
19th - I had 6 barbel to about 7lb and 3 chub of about 2lb. Others caught 4 barbel to 8:04 and 1 barbel respectively. We fished the Vanstone pool area. It's a fantastic swim but I did feel a little uncomfortable fishing two days for a shoal which is obviously subject to a great deal of angling pressure. This was reinforced when I caught the same fish twice. Are there stretches of the Wye where the barbel are more spread out?
All in all I had 22 barbel over 3 days so was very happy with my first visit to the Wye. Fabulous river and surroundings - we will be back. Thanks to WUF for good service.

4 Anglers had 24 Barbel a few chub and an eel on a variety of baits between us.
Still a little dissappointed that so much of the river here is unfishable due to the dense foliage.

Chub x 8 sweetcorn on the hook best 3 1/2 lbs, Barbel x 3 Sweetcorn (stack on the hair rig) feeder, best 9 lbs. Thank you again fantastic service, directions etc, second annual trip to this wonderful river.

Fished for a couple of hours in the morning at the bottom end where there are small rapids in the oxygenated water and managed a Chub and a Barbel, returned around 5 pm until dark, the Chub were biting every now and again and I had about 5 or 6. Then the Barbel moved in around 8.30pm and I caught a further 5 fish including a 4 pounder, which was the hardest fighter of them all.

Good luck to everyone fishing as its the toughest I have known it on the Wye. Back in September hopefully when there is more water in the river and the conditions are more conducive to fishing rather than sunbathing.

Very hot and sunny day fished about 4 hours in the morning for one chub and one barbel fishing both at the top and bottom of the beat, very tough going.

Returned at 5 pm and had seven more barbel to 10.3 lb and a few chub. Strangely as the sun went down I couldn't buy a bite - looks like the popular swims have been getting hammered and didn't produce on this day.

An oddly difficult day. Barbel reluctant to play in any of the usual swims. Caught a couple of 2lb class chub and lost both of the two barbel tempted.

We caught 2 chub of about 2pounds each, swims were generally low, no evidence of barbel, lots of weed, tried on pellet and meat, the latter being more productive. Lot's of salmon around, next year will fish a little lower. But what a gorgeous place!

Great way to start the season off. 9 Chub caught 2lb - 4.5lb, 5 Barbel 3lb - 7lb, all caught on pellet.
Great wild life as usual, saw Jays, Buzzards and even a Peregrine falcon.

As usual lots of canoes on the river they were all very considerate once you made your presence known. Definitely will be booking up again in the future.
Thanks to everybody at Wye and Usk.