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Monday 22 August, 2011
A. B. from Oxford
Back again!! Myself and my father started fishing at 7am and shortly after managed a 12lb mirror. After that no more action till a 3lb chub at about 2pm. Very sunny so I guess that didnt help.
More needs to be done about about the canoes, some pass by quietly but some actually stopped in our swim and started shouting and splashing about. The canoes all seem to come come from one or two hire places so maybe a phone call from the WUF asking them to ask their customers to be more courteous would not go amiss.
Monday 22 August, 2011
P. K. from Wiltshire
River very low and clear. Fished from 6.45 to 12. Took 5 barbel fishing pellet over a big bed of hemp. 4 fish between 4 and 5 ish pounds. Best fish was an absolute belter of 9lb 6oz. Plenty of other bites.
Canoe traffic was much lighter than I was expecting and to be honest the fish didn't seem to mind them. I even had bites when the canoes were directly over the fish. Mostly the canoeists were well behaved but for 2 morons paddling one canoe who thought it great fun to paddle directly towards drinking cattle and hit them in the faces with their paddles!
Monday 22 August, 2011
A. B. from Ipswich
Great day will be back as soon as possible.
Canoes most of the day but only those on "corporate team days" really caused any problems!
Monday 6 September, 2010
M. J.
Title: Recent email sent to Celtic Canoes, copied to the Foundation.Content:
To whom it may concern,
I was fishing at Winforton on Saturday and Sunday. Some of your Canoes were on the river. The behaviour of a great number of your customers was appalling. I am not against canoeing at all, in fact I have canoed down the Wye several times. There is room for fishermen and canoeists.
Your customers were
1. Shouting and screaming so that not only did they disturb the wildlife, had there been someone drowning no one would have taken any notice.
2. Empty bottles and drink can were being thrown into the river along with discarded paper cartons and crisp packets.
3. No consideration was taken towards me fishing, in fact some of your canoeists paddled within a yard or so of me whilst some did paddle down the other side of the river.
4. A number stopped in the pool I was fishing and mucked about, granted on the other side but it still disturbed the pool I was fishing.
This behaviour is totally uncalled for and is caused in the majority by ignorance by the fact that your company quite obviously does not given the customers a pep talk / lecture on how to behave on the river.
There is room for both canoes and fishermen providing the canoeists behave in a responsible way, respect fishermen, pass quietly on the far side of the stream where possible and DON'T STOP.
I know they were your customers as your company name was on the canoes along with the telephone number.
Wednesday 2 September, 2009
M. L. from London
Bank holiday canoe traffic made fishing virtually impossible until after about 2 pm as canoes were veering all over the river,one even bumped into the bank in front of me!
I fished a few swims with difficult access and had 6 Barbel between 4pm and 8 pm then finished off with a decent Chub.the best fish was a very hard fighting 9 lb the rest between 6lb to 8 lb.
Thursday 16 October, 2008
B. M. from New Zealand
I’ve actually left the UK and now live in NZ, but I’ve just come across your pages and wanted to congratulate and thank you for showing the way forward for paddling & angling to co-exist. Fantastic stuff - well done and thanks.
Thursday 21 August, 2008
G. H.
Had a very enjoyable day on the Friday but was very dissapointed to find kayaks on the Usk on Saturday with the occupants screaming and shouting and splashing everywhere. Not much chance of a fish after that!
Thanks to the ladies in the booking office for helping us book the beats on Friday. Hope to see you again soon.
(note: Disappointing to find canoeing outwith agreement)
Tuesday 3 June, 2008
J. from Llandeilo
Had a good day yesterday in spite of colour and height. I M-L caught a lovely 18 pounder in the Pipe which I followed with a measly 5lb grilse dripping with sea lice – both on the fly after Ray had told us that the fly was a waste of time!
The reason for this is to say how well all the paddlers behaved during the day, out of over 50 only 1 came marginally in front of me which was due to the inexperience of the 12 old girl. All were polite and we exchanged a fair bit of banter, quite like the Tay. 6 came down while Ian was playing his fish, kept well out of the way against the far bank, stopped to watch the action and seemed genuinely delighted to “participate” and passed on the news to D H who was spinning below and must have covered the same fish earlier.
WUF note: This took place on the navigable section of the Wye
Friday 19 October, 2007
J. W. from Somerset
Good to see an enlightened approach is being adopted by the Foundation. I've been fishing longer than I've been kayaking but now with a foot in both camps I see many people on both sides who take a very blinkered view and this just creates friction and encourages kayakers to break the law. Whilst a right to roam on water would be good from a kayaking viewpoint it would potentially cause so many more problems and expense in the countryside, I'm much more in favour of voluntary agreements - but a few more need to be in place.
Thursday 18 October, 2007
N. S. from unknown
I'd first like to say that I think the website is an excellent resource of information, a great asset. I have configured my mobile phone to look at the Wye live cam, which took a little working out, perhaps you would like to post the details onto the website - the URL you need to bookmark on your phone is
http://80.46.105.71:8080/snapshotJPEG?Resolution=220x176,
this will pull down the latest image to the phone.
I am a national coach of the Great Britain Wild Water Racing team, coaching both senior and junior paddlers. Our sport is based around fast paddling downstream on rivers, a sort of canoeing equivalent of downhill skiing. Being based in London, the Wye and the Usk are great assets to us for training in the winter, the stretch from Builth to Boughrood is excellent at 11 miles long - we can get two training runs in during the day and still be back home in time for tea! I really appreciate the facilities and access that is made available to us.
