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Fishing for salmon today, held no hope of catching a fish. The river was the colour of coffee due to excessive algal bloom, and there were incessant interruptions to fishing due to the passing of canoeists.
Surely, the numbers of canoes should be limited by the licensing of the canoe hire companies The licence fees to go towards the improvement and protection of the river's habitat. I think that I am right in my understanding that the canoe rental companies contribute nothing to the upkeep of the river habitat, yet they must be making significant profit from it.
The quality of the river water in Summer has to be reduced by the current levels of extraction of river water for agriculture which were set in the time before climate change.
I will be back again, in hope and preferably after a good week of heavy rain has flushed through the river .

2 feet off bottom eastern side

8 Trout

Warm day, overcast and occasionally threatening rain, but brightened up in the afternoon. Fished 11-3pm, taking my time and enjoying a peaceful day. One of those strange days where fish were rising reasonably regularly, but nothing was hatching and I couldn't tell what they were feeding on. I went through most of the fly box but no fly got more than one take.
5 trout from 5"-10" caught on olive klinkhammer, PTN, grey klinkhammer, copper john and a miscellaneous red nymph.
The vegetation is making casting trickier and a couple of pools are now pretty much impossible to cover, but still enough room for a pleasant day out.

5 Trout

4 caught

4 Trout

River VERY coloured. Algal bloom. Put the fish down completely. Saw 1 salmon move all day. Coloured male c.18-20lb. Tried a number of methods, surface & subsurface to no avail

Lovely beat but unfortunately insufficient water for a proper days fishing.

2 x WBT

2 Trout

Good day, wind was a bit tricky but found plenty of bank to fish. Great venue, will be back again soon. Flies were dewl bach, Hares ears & a couple on dries.

11 Trout

No catches

Fished with two boys and OLIVER Burch. Fished all day. Mayfly evident and fish rising. Casting massively improved. Three small wbt takes and one victoriously landed. Water low but wonderful array of pools to be fished and beat free of serious obstacles. Thanks to Oliver Burch for well guided and patient day.

1 Trout

Fishing too low for salmon so fished evening for trout with a friend. Plenty of mayfly around so fished the woodstream with a mayfly nymph and hooked two fish to threequarter pound each. Ken fished sedge and haresear nymph with no success.
Plenty of rises but no takes for both of us in the last hour on white wulff and spent mayfly patterns which was quite strange. Lovely evening's fishing despite the last hour.
A salmon showed twice at the chine around 7pm. Not a large fish, around 5lb.

2 Trout