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No fish caught or seen.

One fish on and lost on fly. Another followed my friends spinner twice right to the edge and slashed at it.
Also had a lovely shad on a salmon fly safely returned unharmed.

Cool, wet and breezy. No fish showing but one take in the Dog Hole that sadly didn't stick. A couple of shad and one other tug in the Windmill.

2 Other

River in great shape. Spent most of day fly-fishing, had several pulls I suspect from smaller fish, eventually caught & released a smallish shad. Spent the last 20 mins on the Flying C and disturbed two salmon towards the lower end of the beat but frustratingly no takes.

1 Other

My 1st visit to Goodrich and met Chris Price on the beat who was very helpful. Fish seen in the Lines Pool late in the day.

Conditions pretty good and very light canoe hatch for a bank holiday. No salmon seen or caught.

Water around 2' on the gauge the day before. Water cleared well through the day having started cloudy. But very bright and a lot of canoes. No salmon seen but a nice piece of water that seemed to fish okay despite relatively high water.

I started fishing the stones around 6.00am and worked all the way down to the Upper lines with out a touch. The canoes started to arrive so I gave up for a few hours. In the afternoon started again in the stones and make my way down, when I reached the Gabions a lovely 23lb decide to take the fly, second cast after releasing the fish I was in again in the upper lines, a good 20 minutes fight before it came off (probably a large fish). Thanks to the Wye and Usk foundation for all the information provided.

1 Salmon

Water slightly coloured with overnite showers. Lost a salmon about 8lb in top of Maddox pool on Flying C. Had fish on for 5 mins or so. Fished on up through with no more salmon seen or showing surprisingly, not even in the Vanstone Pool
Had an enjoyable couple of days salmon fishing will be back soon.
Stayed at the Wyndham Arms in clearwell.

Water quite coloured, couldn't see feet when wading. One convincing pull on the dangle in Maddox, a 2lb trout from mid Vanstone and a 14 inch Shad from Vanstone, almost immediately afterwards! All on copper black and yellow monkey, super-fast sink tip. No salmon sighted otherwise but a lovely bit of fly water nonetheless.

1 Trout, 1 Other