Feedback & Reports

The river was very low with almost no flow at all. This made it difficult to spot areas of possible barbel presence. Fished pellets in the deep water at Loxters pool for six hours to no avail. Investigated beat 2 right bank for the following day. The adjoining A438 made this stretch quite noisy, not the Wye experience I was seeking. Moved on to check out beats 3 and 4 left bank. More secluded with better river access and more parking than previous beats so resolved to fish there the next day.

A fantastic area to fish, you couldn't wish for more except a bit more water in the river. 1 lost barbel and some chub on a mixture of float and feeder fishing. Will definitely return when the levels are up a bit.

6 Chub

Nice day to be on a lovely stretch of the river. Spent all day trotting maggot, bread and meat resulting in 5 reasonable chub and hundreds of small dace and chublets.

5 Chub

Lovely autumn day, river low, clear and warm. Spent the day trotting sweetcorn on the centrepin, under a chubber float in the main current. 6 chub up to 5lb and one immaculate barbel of about 4 1/2lb. Great way to spend the day.

1 Grayling, 1 Barbel, 6 Chub

Weather was always going to make life difficult with low water & sunny conditions from 8am onwards. Even when the sun went in, it didn't seem to improve matters at Loxsters pool(RH bank). We had a fishless first 3hrs before moving. At about 12.30 now fishing some streamier water on beat 4(LHB), I landed a barbel around 7lb, my friend picking one up a tad heavier within a half hour before it went dead again. Deciding that faster moving water was the way forward, we moved on to beat 5. I landed another 4 fish up to 7.5lb and a chub of around 4lb, while my friend landed a similar mixture of chub and barbel before the light went. A great day's fishing considering the conditions.

9 Barbel, 5 Chub

Blank missed one chance. JB same.

Blank for the both of us. Low river. Bright, hot and light cloud cover. Feeder/mag.

2 Anglers fished beat 4. River low and clear, managed 1 barbel each both 8lb+ caught on pellet.

2 Barbel

The river conditions were not ideal as it was low and clear, but with overcast conditions hopes were high. Fishing from 7am till dark on beat 4 & 3. The action kicked off straight away with a 6lb 8oz barbel first chuck for me, and a 7lb 4oz for J.P. I then followed that with a 7lb 14oz 2 hours later, when it started to brighten up as the cloud cover dispersed. A few chub were caught, the best being 4lb 12oz by S.P. The afternoon was very slow with 2 bites had but no fish. I lost a large fish about an hour before dark, and few more chub bites were had but no more fish landed. We all fished halibut and hemp though the groundbait feeder. A great day out in gorgeous surroundings. Will definitely be back.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub

River low but in lovely condition now and plenty of sport for the rods who fished this week. 7 good pike reported to 22lb from beats 2 and 6. Barbel shoaling up now and were caught well when they were located. Good bags of dace and chub reported from beat 2. Salmon showing in some numbers but no one fishing for them.

7 Pike