Feedback & Reports

No bites and nothing caught all day. Fished beach, croy and fast water in front of island. Bait hinders elips pellet, luncheon meat and corn. Hooks size 14, 8lb hook link to 12lb main line, swim feeder. Second rig size 9 hook, power pro hook link, 12lb main line. Weather fairly breezy and pouring rain nearly all day. River low and clear. Lovely spot will return.

River low & clear. three of us fished various baits pellets, luncheon meat, etc. Graham tried different swims. Not a single fish between us!

Very poor day's fishing, not a bite between 3 rods all day. No sign of any fish on the length at all.

Low water level. 7lb and 5lb on corn over hemp.

2 Barbel

Fished top end of beat in morning. Had an eel. Walked back to hut end only to find pump running so back to middle of beat for two four pounds plus chub.

2 Chub, 1 Other

River low and very clear. This is a difficult beat having fished it twice now. I caught two smallish Chub on trotted bread crust, and a third small one on meat. A lot of weed coming down which made fishing a feeder difficult at times. The beat no doubt holds some good fish, but it may be easier in the Autumn I believe. An easy stretch to reach from my home near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, 1 hour 30 mins door to door.

3 Chub

Hard work, flummoxed as to how to fish this beat, however caught six Chub all above two pounds and two eels. The river was very low, and just like last time the extraction pump was going all day, its very noisy.
All were caught on luncheon meat. This is the second time I have fished this beat. Although I like it, the beat offers limited access, and the water extraction pump spoils the day.

6 Chub, 2 Other

River condition low and clear. Luncheon meat for bait.

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

4 chub to 2lbs and 1 barbel to 6lbs in the first hour then weed started drifting down river.

1 Barbel, 4 Chub

Only fished from 5pm til 9pm. River was low and clear and seemed dead until 8pm or thereabouts when a change of swim gave me a barbel of around 6lbs and a few missed bites before switching off again. Unfortunately my companion didn't have a touch despite moving swims 3 times, but that's fishing!
The salmon were active in the evening, in particular 2 very large ones above and below the croy, along with the trout which were rising freely and made me wish I had my fly rod. Nice beat, faster than average in the lower section for this part of the Wye although it is very shallow below the croy pool as per the description.
As always the directions were spot on, and so thank you again to WUF for a lovely evening.

1 Barbel