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Another great day on the Rectory. Fished solidly from 8.30am to 6.30pm. Water level at 1 foot 11" and barely dropped. Clarity perfect. Covered all the main pools but no pulls whatsoever. Then hit a pod of fish and had three takes in 5 casts, landing 12lb cock, and 10lb hen, and dropping another fish at the net. Chris Ryan, who had morphed from fishing mate catching trout to my ghillie for the day, apologised profusely for "operator error" but to be honest it was my own foul-up. I used one of Ken Evan's gold bodied Willie Gunn piglet on a floating line with an 8 foot slow sink poly leader. We carried on fishing and both had a couple of tentative pulls which didn't develop into proper takes and that was it. 20 minutes of frenetic activity and it was all over. But what a 20 minutes !

2 Salmon

Nil return - no fish seen.

Quite a tricky days fishing with just one barbel of 6Ib 10oz to show for our efforts. The river was quite high and we feel would have fished better in lower river level conditions. A nice stretch of river in pleasant surroundings.

1 Barbel

9 Barbel

Only fished for a couple of hours due to a family birthday. 1 fish seen in Biblins but otherwise quiet.

I fished through with the salmon fly with no fish, I also fished the french leader through the pools picking a odd fish of my one grayling close to 2lbs, it was Howard's first time on the beat he rose plenty of fish hooking several but coming off he managed to land a nice grayling i also took fish on the drys mostly coming up blind as no hatches coming off

1 Trout, 9 Grayling

7 Trout

River conditions were good, we caught 6no Barbel to 8lb & 1no Chub 4 1/2 lbs

6 Barbel, 1 Chub

19 Barbel, 5 Chub, 3 Other

First time on the Ithon and it was high and coloured and we had to work hard to catch any Grayling. Biggest Grayling around 1.5lbs.

15 Grayling