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No salmon caught on both days, neither by fly or lure.

Following a previous rod's comments posted about the lack of access to the pools at Goodrich some good work has been done and access to Vanstone, The Corner Tree, Maddox, Windmill, The Dog Hole and Gabions is now very good. However, Cottage, The V, Stones and Upper & Lower Lines are completely unfishable because you can't get to them! Beat owners need to improve access to their water. The situation was the same when I fished Abernant a few weeks ago. Only 1 pool was easily accessible.
As well as all the good work done by the WUF and other organisations to improve the river, beat owners need to play their part as well.

WUF note - All pools except the Cottage and the V are now accessible following beat work carried earlier this week. There is more beat maintenance planned in the near future.

Very warm with good cloud cover. Fished the fly all day. Only one salmon seen all day.
In my opinion, the beat is in need of some urgent bank maintenance. Banks are very overgrown and access points to the various named pools are not clear at all. The area for car parking is no longer user friendly, as it's a long hike back and forth to the car if a drink is required throughout the day. I have the impression that the riparian owner is not too bothered about whether this beat is fished or not. Shame really, as this is good fly water and would benefit from the attentions of a good ghillie.

Very quiet no sign off any salmon. Too many canoes.

Started early to avoid the heat and canoes. They arrived around 9.30am on cue. Water still a tad high with some colour. Caught one shad on a small Cascade at the head of the Vanstone. Saw no Salmon at all.
Walked up to the Cottage pool. Banks now full of summer growth, making access difficult.
The Maddox, Corner and the Vanstone provided the best of the fishing.

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Blank for salmon. The first day I have managed to get for myself for salmon at Goodrich this year, booked a week ago, but conditions were not exactly what I hoped for: pretty high water with a certain amount of debris coming down, although the colour was not too thick and the level dropped as the day went on. It turned out to be hard work. Nothing touched, although one of the other rods had a small fish follow a spinner and I saw one fish move in Vanstone.

No fish caught or seen.

One fish on and lost on fly. Another followed my friends spinner twice right to the edge and slashed at it.
Also had a lovely shad on a salmon fly safely returned unharmed.

Cool, wet and breezy. No fish showing but one take in the Dog Hole that sadly didn't stick. A couple of shad and one other tug in the Windmill.

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River in great shape. Spent most of day fly-fishing, had several pulls I suspect from smaller fish, eventually caught & released a smallish shad. Spent the last 20 mins on the Flying C and disturbed two salmon towards the lower end of the beat but frustratingly no takes.

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