Feedback & Reports

Great days fishing for my son and I. 13 barbel and 6 chub including a new pb for me of 10.5lbs. Fishing was great in the morning but pretty much died in the afternoon. Early evening didn't improve but we had to leave by 7pm.
Still pleased with the overall result. Dust time on this stretch. Have fished Home fishery previously with success but fed up with the walking, so it was nice to have a short walk and settle in to a swim made the day. Booked again for a few weeks time. Hopefully we'll get some rain in the river between now and then, but not too much.

13 Barbel, 6 Chub

1 rainbow trout on worm. Very slow day, 8 hours of fishing with only one bit. Nobody else appeared to catch anything.

1 Trout

Not even 1 bite all day.

Upstream dry fly. Very bright day. Water very slow above weir. Little sign of fish, possibly some large chub moving deep.
Couldn't stay to fish late.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Salmon of 7 or 8lb from Lower Courtfield between pub and 40mph exit sign. Single hooked small orange/silver Flying C. Quite coloured fish with many spots and off white underside, hooked mid stream on slow retrieve across current. Unhooked in water, swam off strongly.
From the raised deck of our home I have seen groups of grilse moving up shallows by island Friday morning and again around 8am this Saturday. Why they do not go up deeper water behind the Island is beyond me. Not seen this in previous years. Gulls feasting on baby mallards and returning Shad all week.

1 Salmon

A poor day, very few fish rising and nothing caught from morning to late afternoon. It is however a fantastic spot and would go back (more likely after 6pm).

6 Trout

Stunning scenery at How Caple Court, very bright sunny day. Thought it might be hard going and this proved to be the case. Still managed 7 chub and 1 barbel, all caught on trotted pellets. For those of you that wish to wade into the river and fish, I opened up the peg by the pump house. This is at the top of the beat. Very nice to meet the land owner and Andy the game keeper. There is a fallen tree in the river halfway down the lower part of the beat, if the Wye and Usk could open up a new peg here it could well be a great fish holding area. It is quite steep however and dog spike and rope would be a good idea (safety first).

1 Barbel, 7 Chub

Fair few to hand, mainly taken on nymph, a few to dry although fish were very reluctant to rise in this beautiful weather. Lovely hour or so then popped to Bideford Brook before footy!

7 Trout

Blasted up the beat in an hour to get back for footy. Fair few to hand on nymph.

7 Trout