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River coloured from Monnow and Trothy, very difficult fishing with water visibility at around 30cm

Only spent 3 hours today on the beat and had 3 Grayling and a Brown Trout to hand. Started with a gold bead red necked ptn without success so switched to a green flash back ptn and what a difference. Second cast and I was into the first Grayling and so it proves it’s always worth experimenting.

2 Trout, 2 Grayling

Arrived to find a river which has felt the effects of the deluge last week. Fishable but clarity not great. Plenty of fly life with mayfly in swarms towards end of session but not a fish seen rising. Maybe they were on the nymph or maybe the lack of clarity. However, I was determined to stick with the dry shadow mayfly and drew up all 5 fish from likely runs. Missed a few too! Lovely couple of hours in beautiful weather and stunning surroundings.

5 Trout

Bright and hot day. Fished a dry fly for a several hours but no sign of any fish. Middle section of beat is marked as ‘no fishing’ presumably because it’s completely overgrown. Much of the rest is very overgrown.

River still a little high and quite coloured, very warm (25 C) and sunny. Good hatch of Mayfly throughout the day (fished from 8am until 3pm) but very few rising fish. Caught one 3" trout parr on a size 18 pheasant tail nymph, one 9" trout and another powerful 12" trout on a Mayfly imitation. Lots of blue damsels brightening up the margins.

3 Trout

Caught on Red Lion water flying c 12lb hen fish good condition

1 Salmon

Nil, bit brown - saw one or two fish but nothing significant. Quite a few canoeists but all polite and friendly!

Was not able to get to the stream until 11:00am and with the clear blue skies it seemed fish had shut down feeding so no fish caught but still a nice out in beautiful weather.

Dry Mayfly in the morning and evening hours.

5 Trout

Fishing location is beautiful. Stunning stretch of river. Although I had no takes, it was wonderful just being there.