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A beautiful, bright afternoon. Fished for a few hours and found four rising fish. Bumped two landed two, 9" and 14". A pruned olive emerger fished in the surface worked for me.

2 Trout

Lovely day tempered by a downstream breeze. Spoke with the sheep farmer whose flocks adjoin the river - he says the grass needs some rain soon to keep growing, I think the Monnow would benefit from a drop as well! Very clear river and quite low now. Slow but steady hatch of olives everywhere but few trout rising, just the little ones. Still, had a good day with a tan Klink and small GRHE combo catching 5 to 12" in the heads of pools and faster runs. Nothing doing in the slow glides or pools.The trout were in good condition.

5 Trout

A tricky day. Lovely weather but not much going on above or below water. Just a few LDOs and the odd March Brown about and only a handful of rises. I had no success nymphing but managed to tempt one 8" wbt with a Parachute Adams, safely returned. Missed another couple of takes. Water levels seem very low for this time of year.

1 Trout

Sunny but cold with water temp about 8C. Nice little stretch of highland stream. Water level fairly low and crystal clear. LDO's coming off but no fish rising. Trout conspicuous by their abscence with a few pulls from the odd deep run/pool but none in the net. Caught a nice out of season Grayling of about 15 inches which took GRH fished deep in one of the pools. Difficult to fish beyond the footbridge two thirds of the way down the beat.

1 Grayling

As at lower Escley the water was very low and clear, there were odd fish rising but not taking the dries I offered, switched to nymphs and caught 2 small [6-7inches] and 1 nice grayling 12 " hooked another which got off, [barbless hooks] worth the odd loss to help protect fish from damage.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Struggled to tempt many trout, although I think most that rose to the dry spotted the line and sheared off at the last minute. Went very small to catch 2 at 8", but I hope the river gets a good clear out over winter!

2 Trout

Water quite coloured but fish were active. Did not managed to catch but missed several fish.

Despite low level of river, water in excellent condition; slight colour and running well. Two small Brown's on Yellow Sedge and Hopper but loads of missed "attacks" on ever-smaller Dries. Beautiful location; squirrels and dippers kept me company along with a pair of very active Kingfishers. A great day out.

2 Trout

Weather sunny and warm, better than the afternoon, water low but was carrying a little colour, some rises seen, raised 2 fish but did not connect. I did catch 1 nice trout about 12 inches on nymph, fished for about 2 hours.

1 Trout

Cool showery day, river low and a bit murky. Nothing rising, landed 7 trout 7" to 10" on small sparsely dressed PTN nymph from various places. Still some hardy campers in a couple of fields!

7 Trout