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Colour just about ok for fly. Fished down to bottom of beat from car park. No salmon but 2 shad down at Vanstpne. Didn't know they came that far up.

2 Other

Fished The Maddox (the part accessible from the left bank), The Corner Stone (twice) and The Vanstone. No salmon encountered, although saw a largish (15lb+) resident at the bottom of The Vanstone, where I unintentionally caught several chub to about 4.5 lbs.

All the above pools fished the fly well and appeared to have more than enough depth to hold salmon (Ross gauge at about 20 cm). Water temp was 58F, with the air temp comfortably above it at about 64 F. Water clarity was reasonable for the Wye and the day was largely overcast (a little sunnier later on). Encouraging conditions, I thought.

I fished a couple of small coneheads off an intermediate tip. Fishing deeper to explore the depths of the gullies might have been a better option. Will be back.

3 Chub

15 lbs salmon fly caught on stokoes shrimp.
The Vanstone pool.

1 Salmon

A couple of resident fish seen splashing in the Vanstone. No pulls today.

Repairs to damaged track leading to left bank car parking need to be completed - not so good for low ground clearance cars at the moment.

Fly Fished the whole beat, saw 1 resident salmon in Vanstone. No pulls. Lovely height to fish the fly.

Water in good condition, fished whole beat on the fly first and lower section with spinner later in the day, no salmon caught or seen.

2 Chub

No fish caught

2 salmon seen. None caught.

Water in great condition saw 1 salmon didn’t touch thing!!