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27" Grilse caught on Orange and Gold Shrimp at 8am.

1 Salmon

Fished from 9.30 am until 8pm in four sessions on a gloriously sunny day. Fish were leaping on Vanstone all day - four in the morning and I lost count of how many I saw breaching after lunch - 12 or 15? At exactly 6pm I saw a huge salmon leap out of the water and it was so close I could see it was very coloured. It must have been 4 feet long!

Sadly, none of the fish took a lure or a fly - not even a bite! But the prospects for the next few days look fantastic.

River level dropping but slowly, very coloured to coloured even for spinning packed up after 45 minutes waste of time nothing showing.

Arrived to find that the river had risen overnight and coloured badly, no fish caught but several seen throughout the day. still all had a pleasant day spinning.

Not expecting to catch, the salmon (8lb fresh run springer) came in the stones, head of the pool. Cast at a fish which had just jumped. Yellow flying C. Sea trout was even less expected but a perfect condition 4lb sea trout, also flying C, my first sea trout. Mick, the ghillie, was very professional and helpful.

1 Salmon, 1 Sea Trout

River low but very coloured.

algal write-off.worth getting up early before the canoes arrive at c. 10 am though for future reference.