Feedback & Reports

Gloriously sunny day!!! 11" and steady (Llanstephan gauge) A few suicidal WBTs but no salmon caught, seen or heard. But can't help but still like the beat. Oh, and the perpendicular walkboard to the boards on Spring Gutter has completly gone. Shame as it would've been useful to fish this pool given the conditions.

The scenery on this stretch is probably the best i have seen on the Wye (complete with Cider trees). 3 Rods fished the lower section caught 5 Barbel & 1 Chub on pellet & paste! Very hot conditions but one of our party decided to step into the river for a quick unexpected dip up to his waist (look out for those piles of leaves pretending to be dry land). Think he had been too close to the Cider trees!! Barbel ranged from 7lb to 9lb.

Very hot day only had three Chub caught on pellet. Apart from the lack of catching the day was spoilt by far bank activity. Cars continually being driven along, anglers wadding across and fishing our bank and shouting being the means to communicate. Won't go again.

Nil caught.

Excellent afternoon's fishing on a positively balmy indian Summer day with temperatures hovering around the 28/29 degree centigrade mark - perfect conditions with no wind although very clear and slow running water.
Perhaps too hot and too many insects around as there were a whole host of very lazy rises until late in the evening, but unfortunately nothing interested in my butcher fly - although did see a couple of Heron and Kingfishers flying along the river.

River in great nick, very clean and a really great commune with nature.

As suggested in the Wye and Usk Handbook, an ideal venue for 5 coarse rods with 3 anglers making the most of Courtfield with the other 2 ‘Old Timers’ settling for Wyebank.
Arriving late morning after travelling down from Lincolnshire on what must have been one of the warmest late September days on record, like many other previous reports we were met by the owner Don Macer-Wright. Don made us all most welcome and then spent the next hour or more, first identifying and describing the most productive Courtfield swims, after which he took the time and trouble to walk the full extent of the Wyebank beats, which apart from Holme Lacey once, has been the only bailiff we have ever seen on any WUF water after many bookings, many thanks Don.
Total fish caught from Courtfield between the 3 rods was 8 Chub to 5lb and 11 Barbel ranging from around a pound up to 9lb plus.
The 2 anglers on Wyebank shared a catch of a single Chub and 10 Barbel, again with fish from as small as a pound up to over 9lbs.
All the fish were caught on ledgered pellets, we should have taken the time to read previous reports and taken some waders and float fishing tackle to open up much more water, never the less considering the bright sunny conditions and extremely clear water for the time of year, it was a most enjoyable start to our annual 3 day holiday on the Wye, watching the many varied birds and regular leaping salmon.

As suggested in the Wye and Usk Handbook, an ideal venue for 5 coarse rods with 3 anglers making the most of Courtfield with the other 2 ‘Old Timers’ settling for Wyebank.
Arriving late morning after travelling down from Lincolnshire on what must have been one of the warmest late September days on record, like many other previous reports we were met by the owner Don Macer-Wright. Don made us all most welcome and then spent the next hour or more, first identifying and describing the most productive Courtfield swims, after which he took the time and trouble to walk the full extent of the Wyebank beats, which apart from Holme Lacey once, has been the only bailiff we have ever seen on any WUF water after many bookings, many thanks Don.
Total fish caught from Courtfield between the 3 rods was 8 Chub to 5lb and 11 Barbel ranging from around a pound up to 9lb plus.
The 2 anglers on Wyebank shared a catch of a single Chub and 10 Barbel, again with fish from as small as a pound up to over 9lbs.
All the fish were caught on ledgered pellets, we should have taken the time to read previous reports and taken some waders and float fishing tackle to open up much more water, never the less considering the bright sunny conditions and extremely clear water for the time of year, it was a most enjoyable start to our annual 3 day holiday on the Wye, watching the many varied birds and regular leaping salmon.

1 x 7lb hen fish - returned.

10" Trout dry sedge #18. 9" Trout dry sedge #18. Some sedge hatching. Few rises.

1 x 12" Brown Trout. 3 x 1½lb Grayling.