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Fished dawn till dusk on fly, not much doing apart from a good fish showing at very bottom of the beat and a solid pike that got me thinking. Superb spring day with the river in great nick, great to be out!

1 Trout

I've been meaning to fish this beat for a while, glad I did it's a wonderful place with some great fly water. No Salmon but I caught an escapee brook trout which had me going for a minute and baffled as it came to hand! Thanks the other rod Ben for his advice and I hope to return asap.

2 Trout, 1 Pike

Enjoyable day river in excellent condition.
No salmon.
3 chub!

Sunny day and a bit of colour in the water. Lost a good fish in the vanstone on a willie Gunn.

No fish

No catch

All quiet. Fished fky and spun all way to bottom of beat. Noticed a person retreating to the next beat down stream. HLf way down the stones found an illegal knotted landing net. Chucked it up bank to retrieve on way back to car. But when I got back to bet it was not there. I can only assume it was picked up by person on next beat down. I therefore assume they were fishing on Goodrich Court before I arrived.

Ross EA on 0.55m, bit high but lovely clean water, spent morning in wellies with fly rod fishing all way from Maddox to Van stone, only trout. Lovely water easily covered. Afternoon, got in waders tried top of beat, some deep wading upper part of beat at this height getting around the odd willow but managed to cover some great looking pools at V, Stones, Dog hole. Late afternoon returned to lower beat, it all felt just right and coming round Corner Tree into Vanstone stream on inside a good fish on, big bulge and gone. Ffffff! 20lb maxima no chance and pikey left with one of Ron Sutherlands finest willie gunn sneldas! Tough spring fly fishing for Salmon these days but had a great day out. Thanks all and Mick for phoning with advice.

2 Trout

No salmon caught or seen. Fished 6.30am until noon and then returned for 1 hour before dusk.

Wash off