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.

Fished on the LRA today. The wind was cold and easterly, not good for fishing even worse for dry fly early season. I fished heavy nymphs for a while. Which resulted in a couple or three Grayling. Here is one of them.

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 [...]