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Had a very enjoyable days fishing on this beat. My first time fishing the Monnow. The river was a little low but managed to catch 6 WBT, 2 on dry fly, a tan klinkhammer. Then 4 fishing wet fly on a pheasant tail nymph. All fish about 11 inches and all returned. Will try to come back soon.

Total of 3 trout caught (all returned). I had an 8oz 11 inch trout on a march brown. My colleague NH had two, somewhat smaller trout, of which he will post seperate details.

Addequate, mainly small fly. Few rises and most of them small fry of some sort. Very pleasant fishing thank you.

Fished with my colleague JJ who caught a very respectable 11" brown trout. Enjoyable day with some light rain during the afternoon. Hatches of pale wateries and some mayfly. Landed two small wild trout (up to 6")caught on a parachute Greenwells. Missed several others on a spent mayfly pattern and Tups Indispensible. Good sitings of Banded Demoiselles, Blue-Tailed Damselfly and Ringlet and Large Skipper butterflies.

A very nice beat, with yellow mays hatching sporadically throughout the day, although I did not see a trout rise to one at all. Plenty of rises to smaller flies, but I only managed 1 x 10" WBT with an induced take on a brown dry. The only thing that marred the day was a springer spaniel chasing a duck half the length of the river!

Four brown trout - all over 10in - and released as always. Lost four as well.
River a little "brown" due to the previous days welcomed rain.
All caught on dries.
A super day with easy access to the water.

14 wild browns mostly 9-10" all on small ptn. Virtually no hatch. River very cloudy and, of course, very low. All fish came from the top half of the beat, lower half seemed dead.

River slightly coloured. Caught 3 brown trout between 4 and 8 oz and I grayling of about 12oz. Two trout caught on dry Adams. Grayling and one trout caught on pheasant tail nymph.

Caught one 16in chub and 28 trout to 13in on March Brown.

Perhaps not the best day for my first time on the Monnow - an amber Met Office warning for high winds coupled with horizontal rain made it a challenge. Alas nothing caught but at least a chance to get to know this stretch of the river. Despite the conditions steady numbers of yellow mays, olives and mayfly - but few rises. Certainly a beat to come back to when the weather is more clement.

4 x BT returned. 4 hours fishing. Couple of hours around lunch time couple of hours in the evening. Lots of may fly but fish not really rising. 2 x on may fly spinners and 2 x on emergers.

Lovely beat.