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Post by Cranefly on Mar 7, 2006 10:33:58 GMT -5
Available fishing on this river and her tribs has been posted on the River Monnow Project website, www.monnow.org.uk. The season has started and the the fish are rising in this lovely part of the world. Sales pitch over! Enjoy.
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Post by tigermoth on Mar 8, 2006 7:25:57 GMT -5
Had the list through yesterday am from the MFA. Looks to be lots of good opportunities
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Post by Sewinbasher on Mar 8, 2006 7:48:30 GMT -5
Some lovely stretches here, almost all of it on the upper river and tributaries and in many cases not a stockie in sight. There's few more beautiful places than the Monnow Valley in Spring.
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Post by tigermoth on Mar 19, 2006 15:42:19 GMT -5
Out today on the Monnow and Honddu at Pandy. Water well up but clear and fishable this far up. There was a decent hatch of Olives at midday but no sustained rise and little hatching after 1:30pm. Honddu looked nicely fishable but very few fish moving. East wind may have something to do with that. The odd rise to a no. 16 point winged olive but other than that all the action was on single upstream nymph - GRHE, again. Mix of brownies and grayling - including an absolute belter who hadnt realised that the full time whistle went a few days ago - piccie posted in the photo section for those interested
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Post by barny on Mar 27, 2006 10:05:10 GMT -5
Hello All
I've got a couple mates coming to stay the weekend of the 20th May, all three of us are moderate fly fishermen. I have been thinking about taking them to the Monnow. I have a list of fisheries and numbers but have never fished the river and was looking for reccomendations.
Barny
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Post by Sewinbasher on Mar 27, 2006 10:32:59 GMT -5
Hello All I've got a couple mates coming to stay the weekend of the 20th May, all three of us are moderate fly fishermen. I have been thinking about taking them to the Monnow. I have a list of fisheries and numbers but have never fished the river and was looking for reccomendations. Barny Barny, You may struggle to get three rods on a fishery at that time of May. Try this website - you will see a pdf file on the left with available fishing. www.monnow.org.ukAlternatively the Monmouth & District AS have several miles at Monmouth but it's not great trout water, the water is not too bad but trout are a bit thin on the ground unless recently stocked. It is however quite cheap and you should contact Peter Brundrett on 01989 770667. As far as recommendations go, the Monnow should generally be fishing nicely by then and anywhere on the river is as good as anywhere else. Given the cold conditions so far the mayfly is unlikely to have started by 20th May unless we get a real warm spell between now and then and the fly activity will be Olives and maybe some late Grannom with some Hawthorn Fly if its a sunny day.
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Post by barny on Mar 27, 2006 10:54:25 GMT -5
Sewinbasher
Many thanks again for the advice, again.
Barny
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Post by Cranefly on Mar 28, 2006 5:04:51 GMT -5
Bill Price's water at Skenfrith (See Monnow web site) should be sufficient for three rods and is pretty good but not classic main river fishing.
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Post by JCT on Apr 19, 2006 7:51:14 GMT -5
Fished the Monnow on Sunday for a couple of hours, from the bridge at Skenfrith downstream for nearly a mile or so. A great afternoon on the river - it felt wonderful to be back. It was in good health - a good flow but clear.
Not much of a hatch (although some small olives seemed to be hatching as I left). I fished a goldhead prince nymph and had seven on and four on the bank (all released). The best was nearly a pound.
None had a blue mark under the chin, which in recent years has been the mark of a stocked fish. Does this mean all my fish were wild or are the stocked fish no longer marked this way?
Sewinbasher - any ideas?
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Post by Cranefly on Apr 19, 2006 8:43:53 GMT -5
Stocking on the Monnow has not taken place yet. The blue mark will be on the stocked fish this year, again. It does disappear after a year or so in any case. There is a good head of wild fish in the river and has been for the past few years and at the weights you were catching at I would expect them to be wild. Well done, a good early season catch.
Any sign of Grannon hatching? They should on anytime and be the first top of the water feast. In the last few years I have been lucky enough to see hatches of them in their tens of thousands and the water alive with rising fish.
Two of us fished the Longtown beat on Monday and had 7 nice trout and many missed on the top of the water in a light hatch of LDOs. The Monnow Project is in the process of completing the coppicing of this section so I look forward to greater things in the future.
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Post by Sewinbasher on Apr 19, 2006 14:19:39 GMT -5
This year's Monnow stocking will have a blue dot near the pectorals, there may be a few of previous years stocking about as 2.1% of last years Tregate catch had dots from a previous season's stocking.
The water will be stocked for the first time tomorrow (water permitting) so there are no current year's fish in the river yet.
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Post by JCT on Apr 19, 2006 16:32:09 GMT -5
Thanks Sewinbasher and Cranefly - always seems to make it more special when they are wild fish!
No - no Grannom that I saw.
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Post by Sewinbasher on Apr 19, 2006 16:47:45 GMT -5
I called in on Jean Williams in Usk on Tuesday and there had been no Grannom there yet either. Good LDO and even March Brown but no Grannom although she expects them any day now.
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Post by Cranefly on May 4, 2006 17:13:49 GMT -5
A few grannon still about today but the hawthorns are starting to appear.
I have just heard that the Bell at Skenfrith are selling day tickets on a great stretch of the river below the village.
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Post by splash2 on May 5, 2006 3:42:51 GMT -5
Has anyone fished the Malt House stretch near Skenfrith?
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