Feedback & Reports

First time fishing the Monnow and really enjoyed it. Lots of different types of water from flat glides to some fast deeper runs. Lots of flies life but not a lot rising so only a few on dries. Most of the fish came to nymphs fished through the faster water. A very nice afternoon followed by a refreshing pint at The Bell!

12 Trout, 3 Grayling

Hottest day of the week and we catch the most and the biggest of the week. First came in the morning to a gold shrimp at the cottage pool, then nothing till after lunch. 2 from the Heirag to a tungsten bead hares ear and the remainder from the Herons run. Biggest just over the pound. By far the best beat in low water

9 Trout

Hot day and low water. Fish taken in the main on wet flies with a GRHE . One additional smolt, with a further 6 missed. Entertaining but few large fish seen. My thanks to Jon Morris for an excellent day's tuition/guidance.

4 Trout, 3 Grayling

6 x trout 10-14 inches, Hair Wing Sedge and Griffiths Gnat. Plus far too many out of season grayling, from parr up to 14 inches. A few hours with the dry fly rod on the way to W Wales. The river was exceptionally low, just 3 inches at Llanstephan gauge, and the sun very bright. I don't know about wellies, but you could certainly ford the Wye in thigh waders at quite a few points. Nothing moving in the pools, which were stagnant with clumps of detached algae drifting, but it was possible to find rising fish in the fast water. This kind of low water day is never wasted though, because it's an invaluable way to explore the details of the river bed.

6 Trout

Water low,lots of fly life few rises. Small wbt on nymph and grey klink. 8 trout to 11", most in the tail of the runs. Beautiful day on a beautiful beat.

8 Trout

didn't fish

Three trout, biggest about a pound, all on Bibio.

3 Trout

Super low water had me stuck on the upper pool close to the island all day long . I managed to land 10 fish , best one around a pound , french leader and duo worked for me.

10 Trout

Brilliant sunshine and ultra low river levels made things tough but we managed to lure 3 small browns (approx 7 inches each) and a shad (the first any of us had seen and a PB at 7 inches too!) during the day. Lots of hatch going on but very little in the way of rises at all and all fish were taken to small nymphs (size 18) fished in whatever deep water we could find.
Beautiful location and we're looking forward to trying it again in better conditions.

4 Trout

2 Trout