Feedback & Reports

Arrived at 0715 to find mist rising on a nicely coloured river which was about a foot up from the low levels at the start of the week. Also found I'd left my landing net at home and arrived back at river following a trip into Hereford at 0845, so much for maximising the time before the sun hit the water.
Anyway 2 barbel of 7 and 8 and a small jack of 3 all on 14mm spicy sausage pellets on the GB feeder cheered me up.
I moved to the bottom of the beat at lunchtime but could only add 3 small chub. During the day the river rose another 3 feet making most of the bottom swims tricky with little slower water and the amount of leaves coming through, the best part of a tree came through at one point.
Moved back up at 1800 and had a 9lb barbel and a 3lb chub on the edge of a slack.
Met the lovely helpful Steffen for the first time which would have saved me the trip into Hereford if I'd met him earlier as he said he could have lent me a net but my day may have been different and I was chuffed with the 7, 8 and 9 I had.
He really has done a great job on the swims without detracting from the beat and I wish that other bailiffs would provide a little better safe swim access (accepting SSSI) esp. for us older anglers and I'm still quite spritely! Thanks again to WUF and Steffen.

3 Barbel, 4 Chub, 1 Pike

2 Barbel

We caught 8 barbel and 5 chub. The barbel were all weighed between 6 to 7 lb. All were caught on hair rigged pellet with a 4oz ground bait feeder. If you fish on the Lower Wye for the first time make sure you have a dog spike and 10m rope with knots at 18" centres. Banks can be very steep and slippery.

8 Barbel, 5 Chub

Nice day to take my nephew out for his annual barbel trip. Fished pellet and feeder. Biggest barbel just shy of 10lb. Good day considering the river needs rain.

4 Barbel, 1 Chub

Very very hard fishing but very enjoyable in a stunning location.Big thanks to a top bailiff for putting us on a nice double peg and I ended up with a 10-05 barbel when packing away also had a 7-00 +barbel taken by a very big pike when we were ready to land it......will defo be back.

2 Barbel, 1 Chub, 6 Other

Fantastic scenery enjoyed on a hard day's fishing. Big thanks to the bailiff who put onto a swim where we might get a chance of a barbel. And he was right when I had a 10-05 fish right at the death. And a small one for my mate...

2 Barbel, 2 Chub, 5 Other

Low water and bright sunshine made for a challenging day but a great beat with a hard working balif trying his best to create access to more swims

8 Barbel, 1 Chub

2 Chub

Float not so good today with just 1 Barbel of about 5lb.
A big piece of freelined meat trundled about got things going.

5 Barbel, 12 Chub

3 Barbel