Feedback & Reports

First of 4 days at Courtfield on our first visit to the Wye, river up and coloured. 1 barbel of 8lb 6ozs, several dace/chublets and one chub of 5lbs 6ozs taken in the wood section on flavoured meat and maggots. 1 good fish lost. Nothing on pellet.

1 barbel between 4 rods shocking! Great time had by all thanks to Don and WUF for great fishing venues.

Looked perfect but only 1 barbel and 1 chub at around 7pm. Both caught on Hallibuts, the barbel was 9lb 11oz good fish.

River still up and pushing hard found barbel had 5 fish plus 2 eels best barbel 7lb 6oz

A difficult day on a new stretch for us. River was high, coloured and fast flowing. We found two anglers fishing with two rods each when we arrived, poachers perhaps?
The banks were pretty treacherous due to the rain and not all swims were fish able. I blanked, not a bite all day but my friend had 6 barbel to 10lb 14 oz which was his first double from the Wye.Two more trips to Caradoc booked in the next couple of weeks, hopefully better days to come!

Last day on the Wye, we arrived to the water early and with more confidence than the two previous days blanking efforts. The river was around 2.4 m but was slightly rising until around 4pm. We met Don who was most helpful and was convinced we would catch just down the inside. However after 10 hours we had not had a bite 3 rods, which when people were catching above us and below raised the question what are we doing wrong? We had fed pellet like instructed every ten minutes and hair rigged pellet, the only thing i can think is we were fishing braid which limited how far we could hold bottom, lessons learnt hopefully next year we will meet the river in better condition and have better tactics.

Fished afternoon/evening had 7 barbel to 10lb and 2 eels all on groundbait feeder and pellet

3 barbel to 8lbs and 3 chub to 5lbs 10oz. All fish caught on pellet.

6 barbel to 8lbs 6oz and 7 chub to 5lbs 1oz. All caught on pellet.

An early overnight frost didn't omen too well for this visit to Courtfield but, after a biteless session before lunch, I returned in the afternoon to fish Legg Meadow and managed to net 4 barbel in the afternoon/evening including a brace of 8s. Went home well pleased with this outcome. Thanks again to Don for running such a fantastic fishery and for being so helpful.