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A great little beat. 2 of us fishing and we caught a 12" trout on a Hares Ear nymph and a 9" one on a Klinkhammer.

2 Trout

Fished the Monnow mid afternoon, very low flow and still. Weather still bright and warm. Quite a few fish rising but very wary, one cast and they disappeared. Perhaps I need some practise! Water quality good but thick filamentous algae on river bed.

1 Trout

The barbed wire entanglements make the stream above the road bridge inaccessible as they are no doubt intended to do.
For the rest it is fairly over-grown and currently with very low flow. This means that fish are are extremely difficult , or in my case impossible, to approach for a successful cast. A few rising fish but the rest are speculative casts with only a few pools open enough. The weather though forecast as overcast with some rain was bright, warm & sunny. For all the gripes above, it is still a lovely stream.

4 Trout

Nothing rising, showery but two nice fish to nymphs in likely lies. Fallen trees evident in most parts of the beat.

2 Trout

River slightly coloured and a little higher than the previous week due to recent rain - still low however.
Although we saw several salmon moving and jumping, unable to connect with them.
After lunch had a couple of hours where rising fish became too much to resist and switched to trout gear. Much fun with both of us (on separate beats) finding that trout and chub were climbing on klinkhammers and grey dusters. Several fish missed and one large fish (I know... they always are) seemingly well hooked but lost after a couple of minutes.
Day cut short a couple of hours early due to prolonged biblical rain.

7 Trout, 6 Chub, 1 Pike

11lb Common, 6 3/4 and 5 3/4 bream on pellet. 2 small roach, 5 1/2 and 4lb bream on corn.

8 Other

It’s such a wonderful beat , such a shame that the majority of the beat is not accessible. Both fish taken on dries

2 Trout

My first time at this little Brook and not a very successful one. I was starting to question whether there were any fish here at all, then spotted a shape darting into one of the deeper pools. Plenty of insect life including several mayflies hatching, but I couldn't elicit a response to any of my atificials. A pleasant place to fish, in a lovely forest setting, just not much to cast at.

A very late return, apologies, I thought I had submitted this previously but evidently not. An excellent afternoon/evening, with 6 to nymphs in the afternoon, and another 10 mainly to dries after a torrential downpour freshened things up in the evening.

Frisky cows in field and in the river next to the parking spot, and a shiny new 3 strand barbed wire fence further downstream necessitated some nettle bashing and belly crawling at times.

16 Trout