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a day in the Herefordshire countryside is special even if the fishing was a struggle

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Found the river a foot up and with a tinge of colour. Expected the bright conditions to make the fishing a bit trickier than normal. Excellent days sport, stunning surrounding. Couldn't really ask for more. Thank you WUF
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15 Barbel, 13 Chub

Thankfully we opted for a lift from the farmer (Mr Richards), that is money well spent as the walk would be a nightmare!!!!! we started off at the top end of the beat, my mate had one small barbel around the 4lb mark. I struggled for bites so moved had 1 chub around 2lb my mate had another barbel 6lb , I moved again downstream near the drop off point which really was the last fishable swim as most of the lower section is so overgrown with no swims cut out or any evidence of where they once were.. in the end I ended up with 4 chub the biggest going 5lb 6oz (p.b) my mate ended up with 6 barbel the biggest going 9lb 3oz (p.b) ...A truly beautiful place to fish with plenty of swims with easy access on the top half of the beat, the lower half unless you take a strimmer forget it!!!!!! .. Lovely days fishing with pb's for both of us , cant wait till next time!!!!

6 Barbel, 4 Chub

A lovely sunny day. Car parking excellent. A bit of a long walk for elderly carrying tackle but flat so not that bad. Steep banks but very good to find a place to sit and fish. Using halibut pellets we caught a barbel 6lbs and chub upto 4lbs.

1 Barbel, 5 Chub

This was the first time I had fished the Monnow, and I started out with the intention of targeting Grayling, and was not disappointed. The river was low and quite silted in places but crystal clear in others. I walked downstream to the end of the beat and saw no fish rising or moving. It was 1000hrs very bright and sunny about 16 degrees, it had been very cold the night before.
I fished upstream spiders (partridge and orange....snipe and purple size 14) and caught nine small Grayling to the half pound mark all these came from the faster water.
Later in the day I changed to nymphs and fished the slightly deeper pockets and caught seven Grayling from around the pound mark to 2lb, most took a GRHE size 14, the best two fish took a home tied PTN with a red thorax which was very pleasing.
All 16 fish were in excellent condition and returned to the river, this is a lovely stretch of river, with good water where wading is needed to reach the best spots.
Although not fishing for trout I did not see or move any during my seven hour visit, the day was finished of with a well deserved drink and meal in the highly recommended Bell at Skenfrith.

16 Grayling

First of 4 days on the Creel section and what a beautiful piece of river with lots of water to go at,an excellent days fishing to start the week with 30 Barbel to 7.12 between us,son J beating dad A with 11 Barbel and 8 Chub to 11 Barbel and 7 Chub !!8 for myself but Chub ignored me,lovely weather after recent mixed bag,fish came to standard groundbait feeder tactics with pellet or small boilie baits.

30 Barbel, 15 Chub

Started well with a superb barbel of 9 lbs 13 oz on the second cast of the morning carried on catching smaller barbel up to 6lbs and some nice chub with a lull in early afternoon; plenty of bites towards dusk....also lots of false bites caused by fish attacking swimfeeders

15 Barbel, 16 Chub

A very quick stop off - 1.5 hours fishing in very bright conditions middle of day, lower stretch only. No fly hatches, pools clear and full of small spooky fish. Landed 4 x trout 8 to 10 inch and missed a few. 4 x salmon parr as well. All on nymph below klinkhammer. Unlike some other wild stream beats the fish here almost always prefer nymphs.

4 Trout, 4 Other

I could only mange a morning session and with very little rising and only a few sedge coming off made for tricky fishing. I caught only one small trout on a PTN nymph and lost a couple of others, maybe in the late afternoon/early evening things would have got going. As always I enjoyed the session and casting under the tree canopy, getting the fly to go where you want it to is a challenge.

1 Trout

Early start, not easy to reach the river due to a fallen tree blocking the path, bright conditions, fished the duo, 8 trout 8-10" all on the Polyphaetis nymph.

8 Trout