Feedback & Reports

Great days fishing - 9 chub to 4.5lb and finally got a barbel 5.5lb. Also had an eel. Most were on meat or pellet.

1 Barbel, 9 Chub, 1 Other

River on its bones. Humid warm and bright until late afternoon when thunder clouds threatened but only a brief shower resulted. Arrived at 14:00 hrs. An olive hatch attracted the martins but not the trout. Over by 14:30. PTN in the deeper water teased out a couple of typical Usk WBT but the flow was so slow it was like fishing Llyn Onn. Another hatch followed at around 17:30 but unfortunately my schedule did not permit a longer stay. I think it is now time to look at evening bookings. The stile at the top of the beat has now been repaired!

2 Trout

Water very low managed 1 chub just shy of 5lb loads of small chub and lots of Dace the dace were all realy decent size fish whilst the barbel didn’t want to show there face due to being so hot it was nice to get down the wye again. swims still very over grown but we managed ok. back again for some more very soon

8 Chub, 20 Other

Great day on the float. Fish from 12oz to around 8lb. Most of the barbel around the 3 to 4lb mark.
Other fish were 4oz dace.

11 Barbel, 11 Chub, 2 Other

Other a dace, nice to see the streamer weed returning.

17 Barbel, 7 Chub, 1 Other

Other fish were eels

1 Barbel, 3 Chub, 2 Other

This was my first visit to Thomas Wood. Its a beautiful beat with a mix of fast runs and deeper slower sections. As always with the Wye, the wildlife is abundant. Access down to the river is excellent allowing you to park at one of 2 parking areas very near to the river. Fished from 3pm. Slow afternoon with only a few annoying bites from small Chub. Tried a variety of baits and methods in 3 different swims. Finally a proper bite at dusk resulting in a hard fighting Wye barbel of 6.25lb's caught at the lower end of the wood. The bait was a 12mm pellet.

1 Barbel

SM had 48 chub and 1 Barbel using feeder tactics with red pellet best bait. SG had 37chub using float/ feeder combo with pellets. MH had 12 chub and 3 barbel to 5lb wandering top and bottom fields.
Weather hot and river low.

4 Barbel, 97 Chub

Riverbank needs some maintainance as we could only find two pegs as there was a lot of cows in the lower field ( which im scared of, after been chased as a kid lol.

6 Chub

Clear skies in morning with a bit of cloud after that but hot all day. River very low, with a tinge of colour but also a 22 degree water temperature so low expectations. Fished the fast water 0745 to 0915 and 1530 to 1700 when I had to leave, without a bite. Fished the top swim which is a bit precarious but had 4 chub under 2lb ut the rest averaging 3lb on pellet feeder and an assortment of hookbaits . Bankside weed reduced swims in front of the church and everywhere apart from the steps swim in the upper field where there was no Bankside weed was completely overgrown. But overall a good day in beautiful surroundings.

11 Chub