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Nothing caught but a salmon took a small bonehead in the Vanstone pool.....I lost it after a couple of minutes

No fish caught.

Fresh 7-8lb salmon caught on 1 inch tube fly. Park shrimp type pattern on intermediate line. 0.28 on Ross-on-Wye gauge. Lovely spring day to remember.

1 Salmon

No fish caught

Late return - Fish seen jumping at the start of the Vanstones pool. Most of the day was spoilt by canoes from around 9.30am to 3pm.

The river was low (0.28m on the Ross gauge) and hadn’t risen appreciably after the rain on Thursday (apart from carrying a slight tinge). Canoes and paddle boarders dogged the day. This was to be expected on a warm Saturday but I’ll try to get to the beat much earlier if fishing on a weekend again. There were two or three good-sized salmon in the tail of the Vanstone in the evening (once the canoes had finished), but it wasn’t possible to cover them effectively with the fly due to depth of the pool at that point. I caught one decent Shad (over a pound), but that was it. Fantastic mayfly hatch but no sign of trout.

1 Other

1 shad. 1 good sized trout

1 Trout, 1 Other

Early morning start before the canoes resulted in sightings of at least 3 fish in the Vanstone pool. After that river very quiet in regards to fish. Weed catching the fly became an issue almost every cast, single hooks and long-leaders helped but I am looking forward to the next rise of water and push of fish.

Great day on the water saw a few smaller salmon making there way through vanstone and one kicking it’s tail to get op the rapids at the neck of the V pool. No salmon, but a pretty decent pike gave me some excitement.

1 Pike

One or two fish splashing at the bottom of the Vanstone pool. But no takers.

Beats well marked and access all good.