Feedback & Reports

A very hard day with the river woefully low. Both of us blanked despite trying just about everything.
Fantastic stretch and our thanks to Terry for the very warm welcome, tea, and lift down to the river.
We will definitely return when we have had some rain.

The river was low and crystal clear, could not tempt a fish although saw plenty topping. Unable to see what they were taking as the small amount of flies drifting on the water appeared to be ignored.

Quite a slow days fishing in reasonable conditions. Grayling difficult to locate, except when they were rising, which was not very often. Two of us managed 4 grayling between 12" and 14", 7 smaller trout to 11" and one cracker of a trout of 15", caught on a heavy nymph fished deep and slow through one of the deep pools. The bull is quite a large one and is free roaming between fields 4, 5 and 6. During the morning, the lambs in the field on the other bank got quite excited. One of them jumped into the water, closely followed by two labradors. The lamb was swimming around the pool, with the dogs trying to grab it by the back of the neck. I chased the dogs away, and the lamb climbed out on the wrong bank. Coincidently, there were two recently drowned lambs further down the beat. With the army sounding like they were prepating for WW3, it was an eventful morning.

7 Trout, 7 Grayling

Two small trout, one 9" & one 7" on bibio type fly and a small dark brown muddler.

2 Trout

Another brill day on the Wye. Had to work hard to find the fish, but there was no stopping them once I had.
Had five fish 4.14, 4.14, 4.15, 5.8 and 6.14. Also lost a huge Barbel, it slipped the hook whilst trying to bully it away from the over hanging trees. Why is it always the big ones that get away!!

5 Barbel

My mate had never caught a barbel before so when I saw a low clear river I feared the worst, especially with bright sunshine. When, after a change of swims he landed his first barbel of just under 7lb we were both very happy. Thanks as always to the Foundation.

2 Barbel, 7 Chub

River levels still very low and clear making the fishing difficult. Not a touch all day. I walked the beat 4 times and with the sun out could see most of the river bed but did not spot a single fish. But as the sun went down the fish came out from the tree cover. 4 x barbel, biggest 9lbs 15 oz, all caught in the last hour before darkness.

4 Barbel

Two fish brought to hand, both approx. 10 inches. Caught on size 18 brown and black Para Adams. Missed several other takes.

2 Trout

River very low, clear & bright sunny conditions, fishing very difficult. Maggots caught small chub and trout and an eel fell to pellet.
First time on stretch and pleased with the variation of swims but no sign of barbel.

1 Trout, 4 Chub, 1 Other

My last day of the trout season ended as it began - in failure! I caught 5 small trout, all returned, but haven't had a sniff at a bigger fish all season. Later in the day 5 other fishermen turned up on the same stretch as me, from the town bridge down. Even though there were no other bookings mentioned, fishing on this stretch seems not exclusive.

WUF note - It is mentioned in the Passport that this section of water has unlimited rods and up to 10 rods are bookable online as it is part of a Clubs waters.