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Fished from 11am to 6pm. Water at a lovely height and colour and fish showing in all the right places included some coloured thing (one very big one in the Vanstone) and a few fresh grilse. Chopped and changed methods to get a response but the ony interest was a tug in the Maddox. Canoe hatch was heavy either side of lunch but after 2.00pm it reduced to the occasional canoe.

River at 62 degrees, a tad warm and a bit too high and coloured according to Mick.......thank you Mick for providing my excuse for not catching today.

Not fished this beat before & so we were grateful for Mick's advice & company..Water a little high for this beat we were told but it fished well for most of the pools.Plenty of coloured fish showing but with the length of time they may have been resident and the water temperature like a warm bath we were up against it perhaps?Canoeists were all very polite including several parties of youngsters.Summer fishing can be hard work at times!

Nil Return

1 Pike

Fly fishing River fairly clear a little bit higher than my last time out around two weeks ago probably 9inches or depth of a step
no fish taken water temperature a bit high some fish coming to the surface a couple of witch leaped high out of the water
right in front of me another nice day the casting is coming along fine well worth going

My first visit to the beat and I was impressed by the amount of good fly water. It was a promising day with cloud and light rain, the level a few inches up and slightly coloured, and I concentrated my efforts on the bottom of the beat down to the Vanstone, where there were clearly fish. I fished mainly smallish bright doubles on a floating line, and also tried a small spinner for a short time. I saw about a dozen salmon and grilse move during the day (most but not all coloured), one or two of them almost under the rod tip, but I did not manage to contact one before admitting defeat in heavy rain at 7.45.

river running clear one grilse 4lbs from Madox on the fly , but more interesting a dozen teepees on the far bank more like the Little Bighorn than a salmon beat , bring on the 7th cavalry ?

1 Salmon

Fish everywhere lost one salmon, 12lb pike

1 Pike