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2 x trout 10-12 inches, Monnow Gosling. River coloured and rose 3 inches with rain.

2 Trout

After watching the forecast for the bank holiday weekend change from glorious to miserable in the week running up to it, we approached the river with some trepidation. Arriving early, there was a spell from about 08:00-08:30 which felt warm with plenty of fly life. A few splashy rises led to one nice graying on a cdc olive. A cold wind then whipped up, all fly life disappeared and the fish stopped rising which presaged a couple of hours of rain and thunder. In between hiding under trees, we switched to nymphs and had a reasonably steady spell with a few more decent sized fish.

After the storm, the sun came out and the water came alive with bugs, but the fish weren't keen to oblige. A few splashes at various Adams, olive and March Brown dries didn't result in anything sticking and our nymphs were ignored. Around 16:30 we suddenly had 4 in quick succession on a Pale Watery, then all was quiet. Fished until dusk and saw some enormous mayflies, but not much was rising and what was seemed to be going for something we couldn't see just sub-surface.

A good day all round with plenty of variety.

7 graying around 9"-17"
4 trout around 5"-11"
All returned.

4 Trout, 7 Grayling

Coloured water after the morning thundery shower. A couple of may flies seen but very little fish activity compared to the day before, so I gave up after only 40minutes.

4 beautiful WB's caught on the evening rise. All on parachute adams.

4 Trout

No salmon seen - water very low. Lovely dry fly fishing at The Gravel Catch - caught a couple of nice trout before the sun came out. Plenty of flies hatching during the day, including mayflies.

2 Trout

river normal 1 trout 1 half pounds caught on a daddy returned

1 Trout

fished through the pools with a variety of lines and flies and didnt hook any salmon but did manage to catch a rather large grayling on a salmon fly

1 Grayling

an interesting days fishing i managed to catch 1 trout on a nymph and 2 more on streamers

3 Trout

8 trout 5 on nymphs 3 dries to 1.5lbs Very low water

8 Trout

Completing this 1 year later - probaby blanked