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Did not fish, after two hard days I was deflated flat and could not see where a fish was coming from

What has gone wrong. Salmon fishing was always hard but this is ridiculous, I/we have put in so many hours of effort and for what nothing . If we were bad anglers that may explain it a bit but we are not. In nearly 50 years fishing I have not seen it this bad, we have had good water at the right times, supposedly lots of fish waiting to come up . WHERE ARE THEY ?? I am so demoralised I feel like putting my rods away .
As you can guess nothing caught or seen, as usual these days

River was running at twice the summer level which meant a strong flow of water pushing through. This wouldn’t normally have been too much of an issue but a strong gusting down steam wind hampered casting. DC managed the two trout, one at 6” and the other 8”. He also got bust by a good fish as well.
My sorry effort resulted in three long releases and three or four strong tugs on the nymphs. I did manage to foul hook a minnow though, poor little bugger.

2 Trout

No good

Fished hard for no reward

A huge disappointment to be fair. Three of fished hard one of us was on the river by 6-30am , but nothing doing, the beat we thought must be holding fish but not a sign of anything a couple of trout hit the spinner but that was it. We came to the conclusion that there is not a lot about, just the odd one or two if your lucky

Arrived at the top of this long and majestic beat to find the river at a lovely height and recently cleared. Wading was challenging with the push of water and took me a while to build my confidence, wading stick is a must.
Nothing rising so started with a klink and dink. No response to this so switched to nymph and spider.
Caught on and off throughout the day finishing with a dozen, 5 trout and 7 Grayling with a couple of good fish throwing the hook. My friend JJ also fared well taking 5 trout, strangely no grayling.
All fish were returned.

10 Trout, 7 Grayling

River looked bang on, very bright overhead, saw one fish but only had 4 gutsy trout.

4 Trout

Nice evening on Gromain, got down a little early so started on the nymphs and had a small brownie then a chub and then hooked into what I thought was a monster grayling put up a good fight but was a Shad of a couple of pounds good fun on a #3 ! The spinner fall didn’t really get going pick a few more browns up right at the top of the beat.

5 Trout, 2 Chub, 1 Other

Did not fish owing to lockdown regulations