Feedback & Reports

River pretty low and wind not helpful ! Not many fish rising and little by way of hatches. One nice trout (7”) on a beaded nymph and lost a larger one on a black gnat. Lovely river and stunning scenery.

1 Trout

Sunny day with coloured water after overnight rain. Fish largely down despite a reasonable hatch and didn't have time to fish the evening which was shaping up to be good! One small trout. Nice beat with easy access and straightforward wading and some interesting pools.

1 Trout

The water was a little coloured and not much rising but still a very enjoyable day on the water.

1 Trout

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Water quite coloured and slightly up from Monday. Had a few takes to a large kind of Grey Wulff style pattern , no luck to nymphs and hardly any fish seen rising. Lovely to see dippers flying around though

The lower stretch of the beat seemed to have a lot of sediment , and I didn't see sight nor sound of any fish. Moved up the three bridge by the bell and the was the odd fish rising , the one I caught fell to a size 16 emerger pattern

1 Trout

Fished from about 6pm until dusk, with most of the action between 9pm - 10pm after a very hot day.
Trickles of uprights throughout the evening, fish were caught on cdc emerges and DHE.

6 Trout

(Evening only) 3 fat, strong fish of 14-15" during extensive evening rise at 9-10pm, on Jingler(14) and Grey Wulff (12). Plenty of fish, and healthy ones, evidently in there; but quite hard to match the rise, even in late evening

3 Trout

A lovely few hours on the beat I learned to Flyfish on (I calculated it to be 46 years ago- gulp…). A perfect warm spring day in the Monnow valley. In truth the river was pretty low and had missed the quite substantial rise the Usk had had over the previous few days. I was only able to fish from late morning to mid afternoon and I know from experience the evening would be much better. Anyone fishing over this BH weekend would do well to prioritise 5pm onwards. A trickle of Mayflies was coming off but not in the quantities I know this best produces. Olives, yellow mays and some caddis too. There were a few rising fish which obliged but all under a pound. I know there are (much) bigger ones, not least because I bumped into Monnow guru Patrick Lloyd by The Bell and he showed me the recent photos…. I spent my few hours remembering fishing the beat with my late father and grandfather and countless family picnics and expeditions, and my own son catching a trout there. And I cast dry flies to rising trout on a perfect Spring day on the Monnow. It doesn’t get better.

2 Trout

A beautiful beat, in a stunning position. A v wet and cold day, but lots of activity on the surface to olives and big olive mayflies. Well maintained as well.

1 Trout