Feedback & Reports

Staying in Kington I looked at the Arrow and decided I needed to venture further afield. The Edw is usually a great beat but I arrived to find it suffering from a similar lack of water. Two small browns of about 5" saved my morning. One to a PTN the other to a Klinkhammer.

2 Trout

Dry fly, water level lowish. I was a little unsure about access to the beat from the bridge. Challenging but enjoyable. I would not say that wading was easy, 3/4 on a scale of 1-5.

1 Trout

Fishing very slow. Low levels. Fish caught on pellets.

2 Barbel

River very low. Sparse hatch of small olives. 11 BT caught and safely returned. Largest 18" (2.5lb). All on PT nymph variant. Great fishing despite difficult conditions.
What a pity it is to see Himalayan Balsam taking over on this beat. Also there is a serious algal issue downstream of the sewage discharge.

11 Trout

River low and fish are shoaled up. Caught late in day on usual pellet tactics.

10 Barbel, 5 Chub

Difficult fishing with a lot of weed coming down the river. Only a few swims fishable with low water conditions. Found a few fish using feeder/pellet combination.

2 Barbel, 4 Chub

The river was very low and clear, managed to catch 1 barbel and 2 chub on 8mm pellets from below the boat house as the light was fading.
My first visit to this stretch of the Wye and I will fish it again, hopefully when the conditions are more favourable.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

8lbs fairly clean hen fish.

1 Salmon

Fished from 7am on an overcast day with a downstream breeze. I decided to head for the woods after the clearance work. I vowed that I would tavel lighter after last facing the coronary inducing hill but alas it still presents a challenge when carrying armfuls of tackle and a hefty rucksack. Entering through the bottom of the woods there is a black bike lock on the metal gate so you need to climb over (not sure if I was given the code on my booking and missed it?) but thats ok because access through the woods after the clearance work is brilliant and opens up a number of other swims that were previously unfishable, you still need a bit of "mountain goat" in you to get to the swims but it's worth it. I opted to fish the Lucky Stone swim with feeder and Halibut pellets and it really was a bite a cast, only my inability to hit them kept me from catching more. I ended the day with four barbel (to 8lb) and five chub. I lost two further barbel.
Be aware the rocks here are sharp and you'll need a good supply of hooks as they are easily blunted and sturdy tackle, my 2lb barbel rod was bent double at times.
A fantastic days fishing. Cheers WUF.

4 Barbel, 5 Chub

Oops, please see catch report for the 13th for the total catch over both days.
Barbel weighed from 1lb to a best of 9lb and a good few fish in the 7-8lb range.