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Lovely day out but no fish. Tried deep pools with euronymphing and klink n dink around more pocketed sections but not a sniff. River still running high and no rises seen despite plenty hatching. Best of this beat at the bottom end, top mostly high gradient riffles without many good pools.

2 fish caught and returned safe

2 Trout

All fly caught. Small white appetizer fished deep and slow.

4 Trout

Deep with 1oz sinker on pink eggs…

1 Trout

7 Trout

Very sunny day, lots of hatching insects but nothing rising. Hooked into 6 trout using nymphs and streamers, landed only 3.

3 Trout

first visit and first proper attempt at euro nymphing managed 2 gorgeous WBT 18 & 19" on PTN returned safely
fished 10-3 cold to start, then hit around 15 in the afternoon didn't notice any hatch despite the conditions

2 Trout

Fishing was slow in the morning with only 1 small brown and 2 rainbows , couple bites around noon time and rest of 7 were caught between 4 and 5:30 pm, we used blood worms on the bottom and couple nymphs , kept 4 .

10 Trout

After last week's heavy rain it was always a bit of a race to see if the river would be at a fishable height by Good Friday. The Ross gauge was at 1.22 when I arrived at the river and, it turned out, this was still about 50cm too high, especially for the fly. I fished the lower half of the beat for 2-3 hours but the problem was as much the fact that the convenient walkway was still submerged which made footing insecure and progress difficult. By midday, I decided to drive up to Skenfrith to check out the Monnow...

1x Rainbow Trout 2.4lb
1x Brown trout (released) 4.1lbs

2 Trout