Lowerwyefishing is the Wyebank and Courtfield Fisheries, a total length of approximately a mile and a quarter. There are Salmon, Trout, occasional Sea trout and Grayling and coarse fishing, with specimen barbel, chub, dace and pike.

To see some of the recent catches of Coarse Fish, visit the ◊ Coarse Fish Gallery ◊ category, or for Salmon, visit the ◊ Game Fish Gallery ◊ category.

Lower Wye Fishing is located at Lower Lydbrook on Wye, Forest of Dean Gloucestershire. This is where the river Wye starts its twisting course through the dramatic and spectacular landscape of hills, cliffs and broad ravines of the lower Wye valley. It is a wonderful place to fish for either coarse or game fish.

“I have owned the Wyebank Fishery on the left bank between the Courtfield and Lydbrook Fisheries since 1993. It is a short stretch of shallows with a few potentially excellent salmon pools. Over the years I’ve keepered this stretch with the long term aim of improving its capacity to hold salmon. I try to enhance the existing habitat through traditional river keepering methods. I hope these create more secure resting places for ascending salmon while optimising the habitat and ecology for juvenile salmon. The most obvious effects of this work have been increases in all species of fish common to the Wye, both in numbers and size. All these fish are wild and to the best of my knowledge no stocking of any sort has been carried out for at least fifteen years.
In March 2006 I took a 5 year lease on the upstream and adjoining Courtfield Fishery giving a combined overall length of one and a quarter miles (2 kms). This increased length creates more economic viability enabling improved management. The lease has now been extended to run until March 2016.
The Courtfield is a well known stretch from which one of the handful of Wye 50 pounders was caught at the netting station above the island. It has a mix of fine shallows and deep pools, fishable from the bank and by wading and excellent boat fishing water. It is a wonderfully diverse fishery and includes the full range of habitats found in the lower and middle Wye.  As the name suggests the river here runs beside the famous and ancient Courtfield Estate, which has been the home of the Vaughan family for hundreds of years. The right bank for some six miles borders the estate, with its glorious woods , meadows and hills, its old mansion and catholic chapel on the hill and eye catching church of Welsh Bicknor.”
Don Macer-Wright