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Nil. Nice day in the sun.

A near cloudless day with bright sunshine so not ideal for fishing. No fish caught. I stayed until dusk when a few salmon showed below the hut.

Got up at 4am anticipating another scorchio. Fishing by 5.45am. Gave Rock and Upper Rock a good going over with the double hander. No fish seen, then one 18-20 pounder showed a couple of times under the trees between Chine and Woodstream. Tried in the shade with a shrimp [impossible to reach with a fly] but no interest shown. Gave up at 2pm with temperature rocketing. Last seen falling asleep on a lounger at 5pm with beer in hand. Till another dawn!

Hooked a 16lb plus hen salmon just upstream of Rock. Played for nearly 10 mins. Lightly hooked on orange small brass tube, long distance release. 0.65 on Chainbridge gauge with a little colour, a few showers, perfect. Another salmon seen splashing through at narrowing by Rock. Fished also below bridge to Oak/Cables. Fly working well and wadeable at this level.

Blank

River 0.7m but weather scorchio. Pub garden was more inviting. Walked the river with mate at 3.30pm. Started fishing shady bits at 5.30pm and continued till 10pm. Not a salmon seen. Barometer dropping and a poor evening rise. In spite of this 4 trout give my fly some hassle on the 15footer. At roughly 2lbs, 11/2lbs, 8oz and 4oz they were slightly outgunned and returned. Enough of this [long?] hot dry Summer let's get on with the fishing!

Fished the top half of the beat without success in the morning, nothing seen. Moved down to the Wood stream and then caught and released a slightly colouring 13 1/2 pound cock fish from the Bridge Stream. Gold Willie Gunn Tube. Good company from the other rods. Could have done with one of them at the net and camera.Water high,but clearing fast.

Arrived at 6.30 to find a rod coming off the next beat with an 18lb bar of silver. River 0.92 on gauge but very fishable. fished hard till 5.30 with no success spinner or fly. Enjoyed andy's company for much of the day. Sorry I missed his fish. back on the river next week. A very enjoyable day. A caravanner made me a lovely cup of tea!

Good size fish hooked under electric cables. At second run she came straight at me, lunched in the air and into overhanging bush. Plenty of slack line tangled and she was off the hook in few seconds. Dirty but clever trick. Don't like clever fish.

None caught.