Feedback & Reports

Access from lay-by to water is easy and brings you to Lady Alexanders Catch. This is a superb pool and is full of trout and grayling . Wading is easy in this pool and it is perfect fly water. We trotted bait and fished fly and caught on both consistently. Fish were between 3oz and just over 1lb. I tried to investigate upstream and downstream areas but failed due to my age and dodgy paths.

15 Trout, 12 Grayling

2 Barbel, 6 Chub

1 Trout

Very festive start to the day with frosty conditions. Ross on Wye looked amazing with the river steaming early morning. It warmed up as the day progressed when the sun came out. I managed one 7lb Barbel and lost a larger one at the point of netting, hook just pulled out. The Chub were in a hungry mood. Lovely day. Fished maggot feeder.

1 Barbel, 18 Chub

4 x grayling 10-13 inches, 2 x out of season trout 10 and 15 inches, Pink Shrimp. Just slight colour and 0.401 on the EA gauge at Peterchurch, so it's viable now although I'm getting a bit old for clambering around in the jungle on this beat. The grayling all had that blue sheen special to Monnow fish, once seen not forgotten.

4 Grayling

Stake out first visit to the Rectory as I’d like to fish it next year on a salmon ticket. Fishing on a season grayling permit to have a look at the beats. Four fish around the half pound mark all took a gold head nymph pattern on the flats.
A pleasant but chilly short session. Will return soon.

3 Grayling

Very misty murky day, air like pea soup. River still a tad high. A few grayling about to around 14oz but hard work for them. Plenty of salmon in evidence, hooked 2 on nymphs (eventually came off after running hard downriver!) Several dead ones on the bank half eaten by otters. Its a long walk to the river - make sure you have studs in your boots the bedrock is pretty slippy.

1 Trout, 6 Grayling

5 Chub

2 Grayling