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5 x trout 11 - 17 inches, spiders, Super Pupa and Roman Moser's Emerging Caddis. My first time on this beat, which will probably repay taking some time to understand, although I do fish Kemys downstream. Chainbridge has a well-deserved reputation for salmon and the Rock Pool looks like a great bit of salmon fly-fishing. For the man with a trout rod: well, a more than usually frustrating grannom hatch, missing many more fish than hit, the fly coming off in waves until the water looked like soup with the empty caddis shucks. At 5 o'clock, always worth waiting for, the spectacular sight of the females migrating upstream like a column of smoke. I didn't touch the lower pools recommended for trout, due to a persistent half gale blowing up the stretch and a friendly WUF team busily coppicing the bank. Other fauna seen: a very large grass snake swimming across the river, which turned back on spotting me - a sight which used to be common along with the little water vole, but not in recent years. Plus lots of salmon parr, some of which are already showing signs of adopting their silvery smolt coats.

Got here late afternoon. Fished only 40 minutes in all. Missed a nice trout at the Rocks. Caught a parr in fast water at Wood Stream on hut side. Small nymphs, down and across. Grannom hatching aplenty.

Struggled in low clear water conditions. Fished for trout only as far too low for Salmon. Landed and returned four small trout between us fishing sub surface with nymphs and grannom pattern. Good hatch of sizeable grannom 1-3pm but little else. Cloudy 13deg 0.48m.

Fly fishing for trout took 2 trout of 10 oz on floating line with subsurface nymphs. Both returned.

No fish caught

Lovely day to be out on the river albeit the level was quite low. Spent all day with the double hander but no sign of any salmon, just a very small brownie which put a creditable bend in the fifteen footer for such a small fish.
A few hatches during the day but no trout rising so didn't bother setting up the trout rod.

A very cold opening day on this new beat which has some lovely water although a little high. A few dark olives were hatching early afternoon but no trout were seen rising. Both rods were fishless however we did see a beautiful salmon being returned which was very encouraging.

Fresh hen salmon approx.18-20lbs from platform at bottom of steps [right bank The Rocks Pool].Caught on an orange pot bellied pig using DT#10 Sink Tip. Hope this amazing start continues all the way to end of season.