Feedback & Reports

Had a day fishing here for my birthday and what a beautiful spot. Unfortunately I took my dog and on walking around trying to find a likely spot he found and ate a old baited hooklink so I had to rush to vets for an operation. Please all anglers take all rubbish home with you. Dog is now recovering and I will be back just on my own this time.
WUF Note: We were very sorry to hear to hear about this and hope the dog's recovery is going well. We cannot stress enough the importance of anglers taking all litter and unused tackle home with them. This is the kind of distressing incident that occurs when they don't and, unfortunately, it isn't the first report of a dog swallowing a discarded tackle recently.

Turned up today with the temperature gauge on the car showing 0 degrees, so we knew we were in for a hard time, water level was down about 12 to 18 inches on the last time we fished here, so we decided to walk the stretch looking for deeper water, I think that if we found a pool that resembled an abyss it wouldn't of helped us today, the two of us never had a tap all day. The highlight was a salmon jumping (twice) and a kingfisher making a couple of appearances.
ps. Please heed the WUF's warning about the wooded area, it is quite treacherous in places !

First time on this beat using Czech nymphs and new setup - upstream, short casting, nylon rig only. No catch on this occasion, but will be returning soon.
P.S avoid wading in the area in front of the recording studio - took an unexpected plunge!

The river was very low and the top half of the beat almost unwadable due to the uneven algae coated bedrock. Anglers should take great care wading here - it was some of the toughest wading I've encountered (and I've fished most of the upper Wye beats).
Duo outfished French leader tactics and all fish >1lb took a klink type pattern. The largest grayling weighted 1lb 8oz.
A decent beat for a few hours but be careful!

12 Grayling

Very low levels with most fish at the bottom of the bigger pools, still a really enjoyable half day with fish taking pink beaded nymphs. Lovely quiet beat with easy wading.

2 Grayling

Low, clear and a horrible downstream wind made for a challenging day.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub

A hard days fishing. Conditions were frosty, cold and windy with gin clear waters. Struggled to get a bite at all but a cracking stretch...

2 Grayling

Fished from 10-3. Went for a swim at midday (first time this has happened in years ) after stripping off and wringing out my clothes worked my way up the beat, river is very low and there is lots of algae and weed on the bedrock... it is extremely slippery be warned! Nothing doing above or below until 2 and an olive hatch brought grayling, trout and a sizeable salmon to the surface. 5 grayling from 13"-15"..1 trout 10" all on the surface, Greenwells, Griffiths and Red Tag. Lost several big fish at the net and would have caught more but was shivering so much I couldn't thread a fly anymore....came home cold but satisfied I had stayed the distance!

1 Trout, 5 Grayling

1 x grayling 14 inches, plus various parr, trotting. I struggled today, in a very strong northerly and steadily falling temperature. I haven't trotted the Rectory before, so I assumed it would be necessary to roam around in an attempt to find some willing grayling. However, apart from one fish which took pity on me mid-afternoon, I failed to make contact. There is more to learn about this one I am sure. On this occasion it was the angling community, specifically RW from Boughrood, who rescued canoeists (a very pleasant young couple) after a capsize and ran them back to their car. Young couple subsequently suggested to give RW a bottle of wine, but I suggested another gift or a else make it a very good bottle (RW is a wine merchant).

1 Grayling