Feedback & Reports

I was looking forward to a good days sport at Skenfrith, however a one hour downpour coloured the river and made life difficult. There were some olives hatching and some mayflies, but the fish didn't seem particularly interested, with just the odd rise, generally tucked against the bank. I managed to persuade two to take my yellow mayfly, one an absolutely beautiful 15" fish, the other and equally attractive 11". Hard work but a good day eventually. I think this is a very nice beat and with favourable water will be great to fish. My sympathy to the other angler who was on the beat and broke his rod! At least he caught some too!

2 Trout

Amazing day on a brilliant beat. Cloudy and bright, water very slightly coloured. Incredible hatches. Mayfly and Yellow dun coming off for most of the day. It became cooler with a shower towards 6.30pm. First fish caught at about 12noon on a Mayfly nymph. Caught fish regularly thereafter proceeding up the beat; mayfly nymph in the rougher water produced more fish including a magnificent wild brown trout that was 16 inches and deep, also a fair sized grayling. Dry flies accounted for the rest - (including one trout with a blue mark on its belly - stocked?) para Adams, a CDC yellow dun (a la Davie McPhail) doing the damage and then towards the end of the my own Mayfly pattern took three more.

14 Trout, 1 Grayling

Lovely overcast, mild day. Saw a kingfisher scudding upstream when I arrived which is always a good start. 10 bt to 3/4lb. Caught on emergers and grey wulf. There was a decent hatch of mayfly and good dry fly life.

10 Trout

A fine day with hatches of olives and mayfly, but the fish were not rising. Tempted some up with an adams but couldn't connect and when I did lost them before coming to hand. Beautiful day and a pleasure to be by the river.

Rain previous day in mountains. Muddy. No catches.

Water slightly coloured; no rising fish all day; downstream nymphing. One fish kept.

20 Trout, 4 Grayling

The other angler was my friend OM who will make a separate return. WE really liked this beat - a beautiful late morning and afternoon. Always a challenge. Mine were caught with small dry fly. For some reason the later afternoon proved more difficult.

3 Trout

2 Trout

Lovely day's fishing - weather cloudy with quite long sunny intervals, fish rising fairly intermittently along the beat and often tempted by small F fly if well presented, otherwise taking GRHE cast upstream into promising currents. 4 brownies caught and returned, up to 1lb and in excellent condition - numerous missed takes! A classic stretch of water, and a pint at the Bell to finish.

4 Trout

River in great condition. It was overcast but wind a bit cold. Fished from 11:30 - 17:30 and fairly steady hatch of olives coming off all day. Saw an odd larger fly and one yellow dun before leaving. A parachute Adams was a good imitation for most of the beasties hatching but takes were quick and I missed more than connected. The largest trout was around 1 lb but the stamp was more around 6 - 8 oz mark. Also one or two parr but generally those fell off. Grayling came to pt nymphs fished underneath the dry. The largest was good size around 12 - 14 oz. Overall fish seemed in pockets so you need to work though the whole beat to find fish. Once you found fish there were more in those pools however each time one was caught you seemed to have to move on. Plenty of exercise so I was tired (in a good way) at the end of the day.

4 Trout, 2 Grayling