River Fishing in Herefordshire

Fishing Breaks offers the opportunity for mixed fishing, both bait and fly on the River Wye, with John Bailey well-known angling writer and angling consultant on the hit BBC series Mortimer & Whitehouse, Gone Fishing.

The Wye rises in mid-Wales and flows largely south-eastwards for some 155 miles, for a large part along the English and Welsh border, until the UK’s fourth longest river joins the Severn estuary.

Well-known for salmon in its lower reaches, upriver of Hereford the fishing is more of a mixed nature noted for large barbel, chub, grayling and trout.

Our river | Fishing advice and flies | Places of interest | Map

Our river

		River Wye with John Bailey Barbel, chub, grayling and trout on bait and fly

Fishing advice and flies

In broad terms the fishing season runs from June to November. There are grayling possibilities November to March but highly weather dependent.

Fly fishing

3/6wt.for trout and grayling with a standard selection of nymphs, wets and dries. Barbel and chub 7wt. with larger, weighted nymphs.

Coarse fishing

13ft rod and reel with 6lb line for float fishing. An Avon type rod, reel with 8/10lb line for touch ledgering etc..

Places of interest

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