Feedback & Reports

A stunning and wonderfully accessible beat. Easy wading throughout...even if you can't see the bottom.

10 trout and 3 grayling on various nymphs, with most coming from the faster water. The best fish of the day (12-13 inches) was sat in the middle of a fast riffle 1.5ft deep.

7 more trout on the dry as darkness fell. A prolific hatch in the evening of a broad variety of upwings - remarkable by its variety. Small Grey Wulff and Jingler most effective. Fish feeding hard from 9-1030pm, It was only my inability to see the fly that stopped play.

An otter hunted through a pool as I stood waist-deep in the middle of it. It's progress downstream marked by jumping fish. May explain the old injury on this fish? Or predatory birds?

17 Trout, 3 Grayling

Bright sun cold wind - unusual for early June. Limited fly life or fish activity till later evening after 8pm then brief and spectacular hatch of sedge plus spinners returning. Fish rose well till 9.50pm. Best fly’s - klinkhammers patterns, sedge, mayfly

15 Trout

Hoping for a mayfly hatch, but nothing happened. Tempted a few to rise to a mayfly but nothing connected. There were some mayfly about, but no rises.

4 trout ranging from 6-16" on an Adams. Very few rises during the day, possibly due to the north easterly wind? Not fished the Monnow before. An enjoyable day on the river.

4 Trout

4 Brown Trout taken in good conditions. Slightly overcast and light winds. Regular rises during the day and some Mayfly and Olives.

4 Trout

No luck at all today what ever method we tried river looked very good lots of insect life not many mayfly’s

A challenging day. River a chocolate torrent, chilly and rainy! It was still a lovely day out though!
Just managed one oos Grayling between us. Hooked two little trout, but both escaped the net.

1 Grayling

Enjoyable day. River up a bit but clear enough to see where I was wading and plenty of fishable water therefore . Weather changeable and few rises. Caught the small brown on a pheasant tail nymph with red thorax in medium running water half way down the beat. Had few more bits on similar fly.

1 Trout

Having escaped the Wye at Goodrich (still a touch too high for safe and effective fishing with the fly it turned out), I arrived at the Skenfrith beat of my childhood to see whether I could salvage the day. The Monnow was also higher than ideal but clearing. There was a heavy hatch of mainly caddis in the Easter sunshine but I didn't see a single rise. I fished nymphs in the slightly coloured water and despite several missed takes, I didn't wet my net. An absolutely beautiful day in the Monnow Valley though. Sunshine, gambolling lambs and the beautiful Monnow at Skenfrith. Perfect.

Water level quite high & coloured.