Feedback & Reports

Fished trotting maggot starting around 10:00 with the river clear and at a nice level. By the time I'd finished at 15:00 the river had risen 15cm and had started to colour up. Having taken note of the Foundation's news letter on spawning salmon and trout I used my 12ft rod to minimise the amount of wading, however, got caught up a couple of times in trees. Saw one salmon and heard a loud splash which I presume was another salmon. The fish I caught were spread out and not shoaled up. Good day despite the wet cold weather.

3 Trout, 4 Grayling

Access from lay-by to water is easy and brings you to Lady Alexanders Catch. This is a superb pool and is full of trout and grayling . Wading is easy in this pool and it is perfect fly water. We trotted bait and fished fly and caught on both consistently. Fish were between 3oz and just over 1lb. I tried to investigate upstream and downstream areas but failed due to my age and dodgy paths.

15 Trout, 12 Grayling

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

Hooked a salmon around 8-9lb on a goldhead nymph. Played it for about 10 mins and it released itself. One out of season brownie. No grayling to be seen anywhere. This beat used to be full of fish. I’ve fished this beat twice this year now and not a sign of a Grayling. I think some investigation work needs to be carried out. I won’t be returning anytime soon.
Lovely day out though.

1 Salmon, 1 Trout

1 Trout

Very festive start to the day with frosty conditions. Ross on Wye looked amazing with the river steaming early morning. It warmed up as the day progressed when the sun came out. I managed one 7lb Barbel and lost a larger one at the point of netting, hook just pulled out. The Chub were in a hungry mood. Lovely day. Fished maggot feeder.

1 Barbel, 18 Chub

4 x grayling 10-13 inches, 2 x out of season trout 10 and 15 inches, Pink Shrimp. Just slight colour and 0.401 on the EA gauge at Peterchurch, so it's viable now although I'm getting a bit old for clambering around in the jungle on this beat. The grayling all had that blue sheen special to Monnow fish, once seen not forgotten.

4 Grayling

Stake out first visit to the Rectory as I’d like to fish it next year on a salmon ticket. Fishing on a season grayling permit to have a look at the beats. Four fish around the half pound mark all took a gold head nymph pattern on the flats.
A pleasant but chilly short session. Will return soon.

3 Grayling

Very misty murky day, air like pea soup. River still a tad high. A few grayling about to around 14oz but hard work for them. Plenty of salmon in evidence, hooked 2 on nymphs (eventually came off after running hard downriver!) Several dead ones on the bank half eaten by otters. Its a long walk to the river - make sure you have studs in your boots the bedrock is pretty slippy.

1 Trout, 6 Grayling