Feedback & Reports

Fished from 4 - 10pm. Best time seemed around 7 - 9. Plenty of proper mayflies coming off plus smaller mayflies. Yes you have to trudge the beat and there were sections with not much activity but with careful study good pockets of fish could be found. Of the 14 fish to net most were in the 6oz-12oz bracket. One fish was over a pound and the best was a clonker of around 2lb which gave me a bit of a shock. Perhaps a further 10 shed hook before the net and a couple of those would have been better stamp also. Plenty of missed takes as well. Most fish took a large Adams/small grey Wulf. The chub were very small but there seemed a lot of them going for flies. The access points in about 8 places had been hacked back which helped otherwise access might have been difficult. At one point I took about 5 minutes to haul myself out and one pool looked very inviting with rising fish but the bank was steep and I thought better judgement was required. Very enjoyable day and one of my best on WUF waters.

14 Trout, 2 Chub

Sunny day if a little windy. Saw some mayfly hatching but didn't see a single fish move, which is surprising given that are some really nice pools and glides. Fished in the afternoon, very pleasant but very quiet!

Lovely place but very hard work for me I'm 58 but I will be back.

2 Trout

Used dry fly only, disappointing fly life. A few mayfly about. Difficult access mostly.

2 Trout

20 x trout 9-14 inches, Monnow Gosling. A proper mayfly afternoon, dull and warm, with plenty of the big flies hatching. My only complaint is that the river was still pretty thickly coloured, so the action was more or less confined to shallow runs and pool tails. I really shouldn't moan; if the Monnow didn't have plenty of silt there wouldn't be mayfly.

20 Trout

20 x trout 9-14 inches, Monnow Gosling. A proper mayfly afternoon, dull and warm, with plenty of the big flies hatching. My only complaint is that the river was still pretty thickly coloured, so the action was more or less confined to shallow runs and pool tails. I really shouldn't moan; if the Monnow didn't have plenty of silt there wouldn't be mayfly.

20 Trout

Not much activity all day it's was cold in the morning but in the afternoon, caught a 9" brown trout on a PTN fished 2 ft from the surface.

1 Trout

Fished with a dry fly. Two bites on the first section upstream from Old Mill House, but otherwise no action.

Three nice size Brown's all caught on a pheasant tail, all fish returned. Beautiful stretch of river.

3 Trout

Possibly too much water, one of our members fished this river before and had good sport, but this time we all blanked.