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Had an enjoyable couple hours fishing this morning, lovely well maintained beats caught & released a fresh 7lb salmon taken on flying c from the main beat from the Crewil pool finished fishing just before 7am.

1 Salmon

10 Trout

Beautifully coloured brownie around 12oz. Released. No sight or sound of sea trout. A very impressive fly over and wing tip from a couple of Hercules's though! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50DOQiER17Y

1 Trout

Nothing seen.

River low, with slight rise result of overnight rain on Thursday. Tough fishing conditions and few sea trout seen over two nights and part-days fishing. Two 6" sea trout caught and returned unharmed but no sizeable fish. Looks like the fishery is very depleted, as was confirmed by conversations with local anglers. What can be done to repopulate the river? Particularly with the menace of new hydroelectric schemes in the Severn which seem certain to interrupt migration pathways.

River had slight tint. Up 3 inches from summer normal. Small trout taken on small wet flies at dusk. A few sea trout seen but no takers.

6 Trout

Lovely night on this beat. 2 sea trout caught (1.5lb and 3lb), 1 lost. The 3lber was kept, the other returned. Quite a few brownies taking interest. I met 3 club members who were fishing and they were very friendly. I believe they each caught a couple of sea trout. Snake flies and surface lures worked well.

8 Trout, 2 Sea Trout

First time for us on here - experimental to see if this was a viable proposition after a days work. We arrived at about 9.15pm to a blizzard spinner fall - the trout were going potty!
But we refused to be distracted and marched down to Crewil pool - the access on this beat is very easy with excellent stiles provided. There is a very nice hut at Crewil with an outside table so we set up there with our snap for the night. Fish were showing so the omens were good.
We fished two set ups - a floating line with 2 smaller flies - size 8 dunkeld on the point and size 10 Alexandra on a dropper - the tiddlers had fun chasing the latter. A size 6 silver stoat on a clear sink tip was on the other rod - can't imagine you want a full sinking line in these conditions.
Early knocks didn't convert but then a fish hammered the dunkeld at midnight - turned out to be a nice fresh sewin of about 17" - pound and half or so, safely returned. And then that was it! Fish continued to show although temperatures plummeted as morning approached so we called it a day.
Two very friendly club members materialised out of the night and were very helpful with advice. Thank you gentlemen! I think we will be back....

1 Sea Trout

2 Sea Trout

Fly fished after dark. No fish caught or heard.