Feedback & Reports

No fish all day, very hot and bright sunshine, nothing moving, even into the evening.
Pellet, boilie approach on the ledger.
Always another day.
Lovely place to be nevertheless, some might say #rubbishanglers but that was disproved the next day at Holme Lacy 3 with totally different weather conditions.

10 Trout

Bit tight in places, tree gremlins kept grabbing my line! No interest from the residents in the thinner water, everything came from the deeper runs. Few upwings coming off but not enough to get the trout looking upwards.

6 Trout

Lovely venue to fish but didn’t get the barbel I went for. Switched from pellet to maggot mid afternoon and landed a few Chubb and bizarrely a pike around 6lb. No action at all from barbel so put it down to low river level and gorgeous weather.

5 Chub, 1 Pike

1 Trout, 3 Grayling, 1 Chub

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

Water level and condition seemed fine. However, there was a chill wind blowing strongly upstream. Unable to connect with any method we tried. A bit disappointed but will definitely return earlier next year.

Another hot sunny day. Arrived mid afternoon and started fishing around 4 o’clock with pellet and feeder.
Had plenty of fish in front of me as the line was twitching constantly. But the fish weren’t that interested in what I had to offer them, so I was pleased to end with three! Great stretch of river if a little overgrown and access would be tricky in wet conditions.

3 Barbel

This return and the one before it are for 2 anglers CT and PH. Gin clear river - needs some water badly. Least number of canoes day yet on the lower Wye. no more than a dozen or so canoes all day. Extremely tough day here at Courtfield. The only take/bite all day was 1 eel which fell to CT on the meat

1 Other

Fished from 8.30 till 5 Difficult day, very bright and a gusting wind which couldn't make up it's mind where it was coming from. Started off on french leader, taking 2 tiny, 4 ins, grayling. Some fish rising so switched to a dry, parachute adams, had another 3 grayling, 10 and 13 ins. As sun got higher the fish went in to hiding, and didn't show again until the sun dipped behind the trees on the far bank. Switched to spiders and had another 3 grayling, biggest about 12 ins. Missed a fair few takes and released a few at distance. Also had a good few fish rise to the dry, but miss it completely.
I lost an absolute stonker at the net, reckon it would have been pushing 3lb. It will haunt me in my dreams.
A lovely beat, I spent a good hour or so watching the wildlife. Nuthatch, yellow wagtail, dipper, and a pair of egrets.

8 Grayling