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We caught 22 trouts during the all day mostly with sedge dry flies.
We found the Foundation's service very good and extremely convenient for strangers.
Your accommodation was very nice at: Bernice & John www.cerdynvilla.co.uk

Lovely afternoon, but nothing caught. In fact, saw very little fly life on the river and few fish moving. Tried mainly may flies and grey wulff. Very efficient service from the Foundation, as ever, but more detailed description of the best fishing pools would be helpful to a poor angler like myself.

A beautiful long beat with interesting and varied fishing, although pools 1 and 2 appeared to have no access to the water. No salmon caught and no takes on spinner or fly. I did however take a 12lb pike and a 3lb chub on a flying C.
A beat I'd return to.

This is a great stretch of water. Each slow glide is followed by a fast run into a big deep pool on a right angle bend and then a fast riffle. It repeats all the way up the beat. There is a very steep hill down to the start of the beat so remember on your way back not to follow the river all the way and then climb vertical - instead leave the river bank and follow the more gentle incline towards the top of the hill and the parking spot. Water was a little coloured. Plenty of flylife on the water and very sporadic Mayfly but very few rising fish. Caught 3 fish 6"-9" on mayfly, Grey Wulf and size 20 black and silver nymph

3 Trout

1 grayling 20cm, 15 trouts between 20 cm and 40 cm, 1 shad 60 cm all those fishes catch with nymphs any with dry flies.

Two fresh salmon caught and one darker fish missed on barbless size 8 bann shrimp. Saw a large salmon in high teens head and tail about 30 yards below the beat far bank in the run and another straight across from the lower crib. Several shad including 5 pounder. The first salmon was about 8lb caught at the tail of Wyebank run below crib at 8.30pm and 10lb fish caught in bottom pool about 9.10pm.
I saw a small salmon at midday lying on the gravel bar, tail of the run, possibly the fish I caught and another much larger fish lying where the flow angles to the left bank and thought it an opportunity too good to miss with the hectic weekend coming up.
7 salmon seen today and caught two makes it one of my best days sightings on Wyebank for many a year. Bloom not too bad today just a tint and visbility good for both fish and fisherman. The last two days have not been too bad for canoes so it may be jammed over the weekend!

No trout, 6 x shad. Barbless gold head GRHE type with red collar. All returned unharmed and in good condition.
Morning only. Stayed all week at Gromain Cottage. Usual warm welcome and substantial breakfast.

9 x trout 10 - 16 inches, on various mayfly patterns. That might seem like a rather slow day for two rods, but doesn't take account of the number of fish, some of them of good size, we rose, missed, turned over or otherwise pulled out of during play! For some reason, it was one of those days when they tended not to stick. It was a grey, murky day, warm and close, and ended with a sharp shower of rain which soaked us. And of course Monnow Valley, overgrown as it is, is always "rough fishing." But what fun it was, and full of incidents. Consider this example: While I'm stood changing my fly on a pool tail, a trout of about a pound and a half suddenly leaps up about a foot from the surface and not more than five yards upstream and neatly takes a mayfly on the wing. Noting that we have just fished and waded through that shallow place, with somewhat trembling hands I tie on the largest Mohican Mayfly I can find in my box and flick it up there. On the third run down, a silver shape comes shimmying up through the slightly coloured water and sucks it down. I set the hook and, as often the case with trout hooked in shallowish water, this one begins a series of high leaps. After the second leap the fish comes off. I am left fishless, but chuckling with sheer delight at the whole game. Monnow magic!

Thank you WUF and Angel Hotel in Abergavenny for helping me overcome my technical problems in getting the directions. Managed to started fishing at 6:30pm on this lovely beat. Various strong hatches all evening of up wings of various sizes and sedge. Caught 5 WBT up to 1.5lbs on x caddis, CDC emerger and lightly dressed Klink patterns. All released. Missed many more.

Caught 1 brown trout approx 1 lb 4oz on a mayfly returned.
A great location will be back again