Feedback & Reports

Warm, overcast day with sunny intervals. We had not fished this stretch before but the river looked in good shape. Most of the chub were caught on float fished 8mm pellets and bread flake and all were all quality fish in the 2lb to 4lb range with a couple pushing 5lb and every swim we fished on both banks produced fish. The barbel were caught on the left bank, 3 from the very last swim and 4 from a swim in the middle of the length. They were caught on 8mm Robin Red pellets and Source boilies and all were between 5lb and 7lb and all in excellent condition. An excellent day on a excellent stretch of river.

7 Barbel, 31 Chub

Fine 12oz brown taken just above Highwell pool, on a Greenwell spider (wet fly). Low water so barely any need for waders. Good hatch of mayfly (or similar, I'm not good at identification) but very few rises. A few bites at Vicarage pool but that was if for the day. Humid. This is s beautiful stretch; saw dippers and a pair of kingfishers.

1 Trout

I thought I was getting better after some good catches of late. Unfortunately not - I caught nothing on this day and even failed to get any interest at all in the many different flies I tried. I will be back though!

The river is a little low of water, but the day was fantastic. My friends Eduardo and Alejandro were the fishermen working there.

20 Trout

The fishing was not very good, at the end of the spot the fish started to move we fished with dry flies and the size of the trouts was very good around 10 inches. Francisco and miyself were working the river.

8 Trout

Lovely quiet river, but limited access down to the river. Fish present. I shall be returning, but perhaps earlier in the season when the banks have less vegetation.

1 Trout

Assume water levels are too low - did not see a fish or any sign of activity. Might be my inexperience!

Fresh 4lb Grilse off Redbrook on fly. Good numbers of very fresh 2SW and Grilse raced through in front of the evening high tide. At the rate they were going they could be in the middle river by tomorrow despite the weed weirs at Monmouth and elsewhere.

1 Salmon

For the first time for some years, I decided to fish TN, as the level was back down to 12" after the recent short rise, and a fine settled day was forecast. So much for weather forecasts! Fish rising at an early arrival, shirt sleeves until 10.15, then the sky darkened, the mist descended, the temperature dropped to 16 degrees for a while, the jacket was put on, rain beckoned but never arrived and a cold upstream wind blew off and on until until about 4.30 pm. Not what was planned! Some Yellow Mays and small olives / PWs in the morning but with few fish rising, and then midge and sedges off and on from mid-afternoon, also with few fish rising. Variously tried nymphs, duo and a single emerger throughout the day. In spite of the conditions, I still managed to find a dozen trout but none bigger than 10" and fifteen grayling, most of which were 9-10" but four of 12", and a lot of salmon parr. Some fish taken on PTN variants but most on size 14-20 HE emergers, and mostly non-rising fish - they were looking up! From 5.30 p.m. the river was like a mill pond but nothing moved. Decided to head off at 7p.m. to discover that the Aussies had scored over 300 runs for the loss of just one wicket...not good! All in all a very strange day!

12 Trout, 15 Grayling

Since we had a bit of rain at the weekend I was hoping this would encourage some fish to move. Got to the beat in anticipation but found it was very quiet on the Salmon front. The river had risen slightly but in the bright sun it became quite apparent the water had zeroed out again. I did see a salmon jump in some slack water so probably a resident. Still a great stretch to fish with lower rocks potentially being the most productive pool. But while it was very quite for the salmon angler, the trout fisherman would have had a bonanza with brownies bouncing all over the place, well into the late evening.
Will definitely come back later in the season, following a spate.