Feedback & Reports

1 16 lbs fresh cock fish at Spreadeagle, returned, Louis advised.

I fished from 2 pm to 9pm.
I hooked one in top of lady alexander pool but finaly lost it after few minutes of fight. No idea about the size.
No other pull all day.
At 7pm I decided to go for trout and caught on dry flies 12 WBT.
Fantastic day.

21 Barbel to 11Lbs.
3 Chub to 3Lbs

A disappointing day considering the conditions, but having said that, the top of the river rose during the morning, could this have put the fish off?
However I did have an interesting experience at the top Rock. My line was swinging round nicely as a swan decided to swim over it. The line went tight, the swan jumped and I cursed and wondered how I was going to unhook a swan! The swan then went downstream but the line went upstream. Reality then dawned....
It was not a happy ending because the hook popped out with the fish beaten at my feet. Such is fishing.
I too met a very nice gentleman in the morning!

River about three feet up but still dropping. Fished the faster water at the downstream end with no bites so moved to the slacker swim at the top end mid afternoon. Caught barbel from the start taking 6 to around 7lb when the bites stopped until the chub moved in. Took 6 chub to about 4lb all on feeder with a variety of pellet hook baits.

Two mates fished Courtfield (we could not all get on same stretch) catching a total of 12 barbel to just under 10lb and 3 chub all from the meadow end. Thanks to Don whose advice was invaluable being our first visit to this really lovely stretch of the Wye.

Another excellent day despite the tricky conditions.

The river was still well up and coloured, and there were very few areas of slack water - which made bite detection quite difficult and meant I pulled through a number of fish.

Pouring with rain when I got there and very windy.

Learnt my lesson from my first time here, and managed to get the other side of the big mid-river snag.

I clearly found a shoal of barbel, and was in to fish immediately - all in the 6-7lb range.

The swim went quiet for a couple of hours, but then switched on again - I finished at 9pm and ended the day with 32 barbel (up to 8.5lb) and 5 big chub (up to 6lb).

I also picked up a load of nice dace and small chub.

All the big fish were caught on 8ml and 12ml elipse pellets
I will be back again very soon.

Weather changable, river level up but falling. 2/3rds of the riverbank was inaccessible. Having not fished this stretch before, I assume that under normal river level conditions, the inaccessible areas are reachable by wading. This said, 2 rods caught 5 barbel up to around 6lb and several chub.

Early morning start. Due to the terrain and distance to walk I carried minimum of tackle to mid beat. Water level up approx 2ft and chocolate coloured, so decided to fish top end of beat in deeper slack water. Wading not possible. Rewarded with 3 chub to 4 lb and 3 barbel to 9 lb.
The downside to this good beat are the very steep tracks leading to the waters edge unless you have a 4x4 vehicle.
Choice of swims limited, banks could benefit from work to improve this situation.

Thank you WUF - most enjoyable day.

Arrived to find river up but starting to drop off. Caught 35 barbel to 8lb, 12 chub to 5lb plus 1 eel over 4 days.Bad thunderstorm and heavy rain thursday morning put paid to fishing Friday. All fish caught on pellet, lovely settings, swims, comfortable access and directions perfect. All fish caught top end of fishery. Thanks Wye and Usk, we will be back, bring on Aramstone in September!

2 today 9 and 6 lbs on FC with 1 hook!