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Lovely afternoon's fishing. Persevered with dry flies, but nothing came to the surface. Nil return, but a pint at the Bell proved sufficient to restore my faith that next time it'll be different.

A quiet day - two rods fished from 2pm to 8pm but only one take (not brought to hand) and just three rises. Very little activity but a beautiful stretch of water

River in good condition although a little low. No sign of any fish and very little fly life. Enjoyed the day fishing from 11am until 5.30pm but caught nothing.

Fished from 6PM to 9PM, very few rises so fished the faster more oxegenated waters with GBPTN, Czech nymph style, caught a beautiful WBT of 13". Water quite low, warm and overcast weather. Lovely evening.

1 Trout

Decided last minute to fish the last hour or so of daylight and was able to book the beat out of hours online with no problem. Armed with the emailed information I headed off and had an enjoyable hour and a half on the river. There was plenty going on, lots of fly life and the trout were active, I missed several takes, brought two to hand of about 8" and lost another that looked more like 10". Most of the interest was on a parachute Adams and a grey F Fly (I think). Really appreciated being able to do this spur of the moment thanks to WUF.

2 Trout

Returned to the Skenfrith beat at the end of our holiday and fished the evening rise - around 7:30pm to 9:45pm. Again no fish landed - weather still very hot and dry and extremely low water - but two takes missed, one to wet fly and one to dry. Reasonable numbers of small fish around.

We fished early (6am - 8:30am) and late (8:30pm - 9:30pm) as we were holidaying in The Old Post Office in Skenfrith (available via Welsh Country Cottages and good for large family group bookings). Unfortunately we didn't manage to tempt anything in the very hot, dry weather though we did see a few trout and, in the deepest pool, a couple of large chub. The beat access is very easy and the river is straightforward to fish with both wet and dry fly, I am sure that it will fish very well in more propitious conditions.

Low water and bright sun made it a tough day. We managed 4 small wbt between our 2 rods, all caught fishing downstream in faster water. No rises to speak of and only the odd fish spotted on the surface later in the day.

A lovely evening with a huge hatch of fly. Fish rising on and off all evening. We started 6pm, finished 10pm. Fish ranged from 1/2 to 1 lb. River still has slight colour.

12 Trout

Cracking stretch of river and a lovely place to be! Plenty of nymphs of all descriptions revealed on the rocks in the river and an impressive amount of shrimp, maybe better then the Derbyshire Wye etc? 3 trout to hand up to 12", bumped off quite a few more as I was christening a new rod and still getting used to it as its fairly fast. Well that's my excuse!
Fish were moving in the tails of pools to spinner as the evening wore on, no sedge came out to play.

3 Trout