Feedback & Reports

Arrived at this lovely well managed stretch at about 10am and fished through till 6 pm on a hot day. The advice on entering the fishery was taken and the drive round the field was not too bad and much much preferable to a walk from the entrance. Parked at the salmon hut and decided to fish in the vicinity after first walking the stretch to identify the obvious luggsmouth hot spot at the downstream end.
I fished wagglers and pellet in the run opposite the trees upstream of the hut but only had a few chub lets. My friend on the feeder had 1 chub let after 2 hours. I decided to move upstream to a chubby looking spot and immediately had action with chub to 4lb on meat. Would have caught more on the float but wind wrong on the day for loose feeding even with a powerful catapult. Ended up with 9 chub and lost a good barbel in the near side weed when the hook pulled.
My friend went downstream and immediately was into barbel, ending up with 5 to 6lb and a bonus chub all on 8mm pellet with 4mm and hemp through the feeder.
Quite a lot of water for 2 anglers and very well maintained. Easy to walk along the comfortable banks on the entire stretch. Saw lots of salmon crashing about especially right on the mouth of the Lugg.

5 Barbel, 10 Chub

River had slight tint. Up 3 inches from summer normal. Small trout taken on small wet flies at dusk. A few sea trout seen but no takers.

6 Trout

4 Trout

Unfortunately no fish caught. not even any discernible 'knocks' until late eve. The fish just weren't there! Never mind. Lovely beat though.

Stream running very low but managed to catch a few small trout all on the dry. A nice chap I met from wye and usk aked if I would report any Himalayan Balsam sightings upstream. I'm happy to say I didn't see any.

6 Trout

Fished from midday to 5pm using mainly wet fly. Plenty of rises in the deeper pool between the bridge and the weir but only hooked one dace. No rises or takes in the stretch above the weir. Nevertheless a beautiful beat and definitely worth a return visit.

1 Other

Arrived at crack of dawn, on what looked like promise of a great days fishing. Beat and swims excellent, and weather appeared to be in our favour. However by mid morning with no bites or fish it soon turned into a real slog. We tried most of swims but to no avail, couldn't even see a fish let alone catch one. Mid afternoon M.B. managed to catch 2 eels but unfortunately that was all. Worked our way back up beat to see if late afternoon/early evening produced, but still no luck, and finally called it a day at about 7.30pm as we were booked onto another beat following day. Plenty of salmon and trout rising and jumping and no problems with canoe traffic. A cracking beat that we want to try again.

2 Other

Great day on the Wye, a tough walk to the far end of beat with the hill climb in the middle so minimal gear would help. Fish mainly on pellet feeder some chub on bread. Caught from several swims on the lower two thirds, didn't get to fish the top part. Many thanks WUF.

8 Barbel, 6 Chub

River still low but some colour. 2 Chub to 4.02 and 1 Barbel 7.08. Lovely day. Thanks to all concerned.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Evening fishing adjacent to path down to the river (wading rocks under feet very slippery). Small trout rising to flies, within minutes a 10cm trout hooked and returned. Two small grayling, and one of 25cm hooked and returned. Water fairly fast clear used black gnats and emerger.

1 Trout, 3 Grayling