Feedback & Reports

My second visit to this beat , good access to the river , and lots of places to fish from .
2 fish with first 2 casts and went dead after that , stuck it out till dusk and managed a few more , 2 at 9lb to finish the day , Weather was ok , no rain fortunately ! Not as many as my previous visit but still had an enjoyable day .

5 Barbel

This was a short 4 hour session and I took my brother in law who has Parkinson's so hoping for some safe swims to fish which is just what we found. Just to the right of where you can park the car there is a concrete ramp down to a long concrete pontoon about 4 swims long. The river had great even flow and limited canoe traffic. No bites for 1st hour. Moved down stream to another safe section which was a gravel bank with loads of open swims available. This is a big space of water so slightly daunting trying to locate fish. Again no bites. For the last hour we went back to the original swim and fished the deeper inside line 2 rod lengths out. 2 Barbel in the last hour. 7LB and 8LB, both in fantastic condition. I suspect a dusk fishing session in this spot would be excellent. I walked further upstream looking for other swims but these are few and far between plus the flow is rather slow.

2 Barbel

1 Barbel, 3 Chub, 100 Other

6 Barbel

4 Barbel

Hard day, River crystal clear! Lack of bites for the Wye. Surprise pike of 14lb though. Can't lie, it was foul hooked.

4 Barbel, 1 Pike

A hard but enjoyable day on the wye, barbel took some finding but scored in the end, feeder tactics winning again

10 Barbel, 3 Chub

River to low

2 Chub

Did not fish

Slow days fishing . River looked fine with a bit of colour. Both Barbel around 9lb .

2 Barbel, 3 Chub