Fished on the Monnow today at Skenfrith with PD. Most of the day we covered different aspects of nymph fishing. Upstream single nymphand a bit of Czech Nymph.

Just a quick entry to say although I planned to spend a lot of time writing this month I spent most of the month fly fishing I am not complaining.

Fishing on the river Monnow over the weekend there were a fair few different flies on the wing for the trout to munch and the fly fisherman to imitate.
While I was on one of the tributaries of the River Monnow, the Dore, there was a good hatch of Large brook duns.

Skenfrith beat newly available throught the Wye and Usk Foundation booking office.
This is a classic piece of Monnow fly fishing water. It has some nice long glides perfect for dry fly fishing or a bit of early season upstream spider fishing.

As April starts I start looking forward to the hatches off Olives getting more frequent and also the start of the Grannom hatches as these are often what brings the rivers to life for the year. But with the high wind we have been having it has made fishing of the surface a very patchy [...]