Feedback & Reports

I fished with a guest and we both fished for Salmon. We fished fly and spinner with no success. Water was brown the colour of tea said to be algae by the next beat owner. 2 Salmon seen.

Unlikely to return to this beat as overhanging trees caused too many problems for casting.

2 Chub, 1 Other

2 Trout

It's official. The weather forecast is CRAP!! I booked today as there was the promise of some rain at least. Whilst I wasn't expecting a spate, I'd thought the 'thundery rain' promised in the Wye catchment, would raise the water a bit and create some excitement. How wrong I was! There was the merest drizzle for about 5 minutes.
Having said that, there was a moderate showing of fish, in particular the trout that were leaping about, but sadly no larger cousins.
I did however catch a shad. A fine fish of about 1 1/2 lbs. I've had encounters with them before and seen several in the Wye. Photo attached.

7 Trout, 1 Other

An absolutely superb day on this stretch that saw 5 barbel to just shy of 9lb, as well as several eels landed. To top it all off, the highlight of the day was having some huge salmon surface right under the rod tip!

5 Barbel, 3 Other

Conditions were perfect, I really feel this is my favorite stretch of River, but no fish today.
Which I really feel was my fault, quite a few takes, just not quick enough. Definitely be back for more.

One Eel in the top field before breakfast,(Nourishment needed for two old fellas to tackle the yomp)!! Although the
bottom meadow looked in superb nick fish were hard to find. Managed to locate some fish in the wooded area.
Eel and Barbel to meat, one Barbel around 6lb. the other 9lb. 2oz.Good quality Chub, nine on meat four on flake.

2 Barbel, 13 Chub, 1 Other

Not our day - complete blank ! This is a lovely stretch that could do with some more swims opening.We were pained by a group of school children and their master deciding to play games not ten yards from our swim ! Other canoeists ok.

Arrived at the beat around 5pm and made our way towards the bottom end. The river was at a normal summer level but very chocolate colour which seemed strange as we were told it hasn't rained much in the last week.

Fishing was very slow to start with but eventually we managed a couple of chub and a barbel.

We decided to move for the last couple of hours and found a few more fish before the swim went dead. In the past we have found that the last hour can be hectic or dead. Unfortunately this time it was dead but we were happy with our catch considering the catches other people are reporting so far this season.

5 Barbel, 14 Chub

3 trout taken. 2 rainbow 1 golden. 2 returned due to size.

3 Trout