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Had a great day however no salmon caught, but we did get a follow from a very big fish at the bottom of Maddox. Good value for money and nice part of the river.

No salmon caught or seen. One chub about 5lb caught on salmon fly which made the heart miss a beat!

1 Chub

1 Trout, 1 Pike

A great beat just a bit to much water running (not helped by the showers). Fished a day and a half. Two salmon moved at Vanstone, 1 x 3/4lb brownie on a BT Rapala from the middle of Maddox and a 6lb pike from The V on a Red Flying C.

1 Trout, 1 Pike

Fished the beat for two days. River rising but not too coloured after heavy rain and some thunder on the monday night. No salmon caught but one seen jumping in Vanstone. Mainly spinning with a little time spent fly fishing. One pike of around 6lb and a brownie around 1.5lb caught. Really liked the beat,especially the tail end of Windmill and Maddox. Stayed at the Hostelrie not far from the beat and it was fantastic. Comfy beds, good local ales and splendid food. Will be back again when the wives allow it!

1 Trout, 1 Pike

River water abt 1'1", colour clearing, 45F. Canoes busy from 10:30-12:00 otherwise quiet. No fish seen or felt. Overgrowen steep clay banks made getting out of some of the pools difficult. Some nice fly water.

Fished from Maddox down to Vanstone with 1" tube with no offers then again spinning with red flying C and hooked a 9lb Pike. Fished again on Friday in bright sunshine with no offers. Decided to call it a day at 14.00. Great beat will fish again.

1 Pike

Water noticeably lower, slower and less coloured than on Monday but nothing seen.

23lbs fresh run cock salmon caught on 2 inch yellow tube at 9am from tail of Windmill. Water perfect height & colour (cloudy grey/green. Light frost at first becoming bright cloudless warm day No other touches. About 20 canoeists from mid morning to early pm but none after about 2.30 thankfully. Saw one other salmon of about 15lbs in Electric Lines about 5pm. Very surprised not to see more fish. Left other chums still at it at about 6.30pm.

1 Salmon

Good day at Goodrich. Friend had a sealiced cracker first thing 23lbs. We all fished hard, got wet - it was a tad high at top end of fishery (Ross 0.65m) and sun burnt forearms. Fished tubes and Minnows and covered much of the beat by all 4 of us. A few fish showing in Vanstone late on - seemed to show themselves after covering them but not actually touching the fly (tried all sorts to no effect). Good day but damn hard work in the sun etc but friend was handsomely rewarded. Many thanks WUF.

1 Salmon