Feedback & Reports

I had 2 trout first thing from the bridge pool on comparadun Mays whilst waiting for a friend. We fished mainly the upper half of the beat and caught a number of trout all on dries - best about a pound. There was some colour in the river but fish rose here and there to mayflies mainly. Another very enjoyable day on the Monnow.

Nil. River falling after flood. No fly life visible on water. Only safe to wade in shallows.

Water .96m and reasonable clear. Fished for salmon with black and gold FC from top of beat through to below the Chine. Some trout rising to sedge/mayfly but no salmon seen or landed. Landed 2 trout to 1.5lb on no12 white wulff dry, and also a large 20" brown at the Chine on 26gm fc.
Constant light rain became heavy at 5.30 so packed up at that time. Will fish well rest of week.

2 trouts about 20 cm. Flyfishing. Also 15.6. I fished same beat. Few long distance releases. Flyfishing.

Having travelled to Monmouth specifically to fish, I was concerned that the rivers would be too high. Having walked along the Monnow on Sunday, realised it would be ok. Fished during the drizzle, as the fish were rising well. All 5 brown trout were caught on Mayfly. Missed many fish. The hook ups were better in the faster water, rather than the slow bends, where the fish rapidly rejected the fly. Access to the river seemed impossible at the beat start, but from the campsite it was good. Caught a 4", 5", 10", 12" and finally a 13" near the top of the beat.

3 feisty trout all less than 9" put back. Splendid small stream fishing with the usual quota of flies lost to the trees. Great to fish here when the main rivers are in spate. Lots of mayfly in the afternoon.

Cock, 27.5lbs (40"). Bridge Pool, Glan yr Afon.
Not particularly fresh, in perhaps a month. Disease mark on top of head. Very tough fight. Photo to follow. Spinning, Toby, 21.15hrs

No salmon caught or seen. However one sea trout approx. 1lb caught on a Silver Wilkinson. The river was settling in to very good condition by the time I left at 7pm.
During the day I observed two men spinning illegally from the left bank just above the Glan-y-Cafn stretch; one of them looked like an opportunist poacher type and the other was wearing waders and had proper equipment. When he saw me sitting on the bank opposite him he moved off downstream, to the next beat below.
WUF Note: Please report any illegal activity to the EA on their incident number: 0800 80 70 60

Wash-off day declared for Sunday, however I did turn up just in case. Had a good look around.
A note for those to fish following my visit. The rough 'track' from Lady Alexander's pool up to the top of the beat passes along the bottom of a high bank. In last Friday's storm 4 or 5 good sized trees have fallen from this bank toward the river making passage to the top a huge obstacle course and extremely hard going.
This will need some chainsaw work to clear. W&UF notified already.

Two browns on dry 6-8 ins. Raised 7. River recovering after flood.