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Falling river. 0.79m cloudy. All on nymph. French leader

4 Grayling

River high and very murky with runoff, tough conditions. Too tricky to wade in most places so access difficult. Bumped one fish in one of the slower glides, not that there were any really!

It’s a great stretch of water though, would love to come back in better conditions!

Quick spell with a PTN producing a nice fish from the first riffles below the pub.

1 Grayling

Day was aborted after an hour when mate found a drop-off in the river and took a dive, head first into the chilly Monnow.
Once he changed into my emergency bag of dry clothes it was decided to head home, as he was quivering more than Shakin' Stevens. Merry Christmas Everyone.

Good weather, mild and v light breeze. Good water level and clarity. Peaceful, quiet. No noisy dogs.
A couple of bumps in five hours fishing the beat top to bottom with tungsten and gold head nymphs, ptn's and red tags. If there was a shoal of grayling on the Skenfrith stretch, they kept themselves very well concealed.
Maybe the four wild swimmers I chatted to in the car park before fishing had spooked them.

Lovely beat plenty of access points and some cracking features it was my first time fishing for grayling on the fly today and with very limited knowledge ocf them i had my work cut out the river itself was low today and gin clear but i thought lets give it a go...i fished traditional nymphs for 3 hrs and only managed 1 oos brownie around a pound in weight that slipped the hook before it was netted so after sit down a coffee and a sarnie i kitted up the french leader with some jig nymphs ive been tying ..3rd flick and i was into my 1st grayling then within 2hrs i managed to get 9 to the net ...cracking sport..thanks for the oppotunity to fish here i will be back..

1 Trout, 9 Grayling

Just there from 9.30 to 12.00. All caught at pool above the road bridge. (Once the swimmers had got cold and left said pool).

3 Grayling

River running low and clear, but suited me for my first look at this beat. Started at the bottom, and caught my best grayling (15") within the first 30mins (losing two of similar size). Worked my way up, switching from tight-line nymphing in the ripples to klink-n-dink on the flats. Majority of grayling around 10", four of them barely 6". Lovely, leaping OOS brownie, and a couple of fit 10oz chub, all made for an active few hours. Quite a few yappy dogs being walked on the footpath on the opposite bank was the days only disappointment.

1 Trout, 12 Grayling, 2 Chub

River low but lovely weather. All caught on small weighted PTN (size 16) fished upstream. Grayling to 3/4lb, one trout about 1lb. All released easily with barbless hooks - some released in the water without touching!
Lovely beat and definitely returning

2 Trout, 7 Grayling