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No fish caught.

A big river, above the stones at the vanstone pool, almost a wash off, water coloured very difficult conditions.

River fairly high at 0.63 in Ross. Also very coloured. Fish was 8-9lb, quite coloured, but very lively.

1 Salmon

34 inch hen caught on Claret Tadpole at 13.30.

1 Salmon

High river could not have fished without Micks guidance on where it was safe to wade and fish.

water high but clear, nil return

Warm, dull day with fairly persistent rain through most of it. River running high at 0.57 on the Ross gauge, rather too high for this beat we thought and fairly coloured. However, from the Dog Hole in the morning, two coloured hen salmon of 32 inches and 38 inches on an Abacus tube fished off a fast sink tip. Then after lunch, two more hen salmon, both on the same fly and also from Dog Hole, both at 32 inches. All strong deep-bodied fish which gave me plenty of trouble in a big current, particularly the 38 inch fish one which got well into the backing at one point. Finally, to round things off, a large coloured cock fish grabbed the fly at the top of the V and proceeded to play merry hell with me before jumping himself off in a series of cartwheels on the far side of the river. Altogether a memorable day - you could almost forget the blank ones!

4 Salmon

Mick did his best for me but no luck today. Few fish showing

River level had not dropped as much as I thought it would so it was unfishable by bank or wading.