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Wasn't expecting much and wasn't disappointed; water warm as a bath and green as grass.
Lots, 100+, small Chub in under the overhanging trees and bushes feasting on the fly hatches with bigger fish in the faster water of the Bridge pool so looking really good for the start of the coarse season at Foy Bridge. The Creel section had numbers of Dace and big Chub taking flies off the top right in the margins. Time to dust off the centrepin!

3 Chub

Well some days are better than others and this was a good day!
The tally for the morning; 3 Shad, 2 Chub (largest weigh-netted at just shy of 7lb) and 1 WBT that came in at 3lb. All on a Black and Yellow Brass Tube-fly by local artisan Geoff Franks. I lost count of the ones I missed by mid-day, at one point it was a fish a cast but most of the Shad and smaller Trout couldn’t hang on to a #8 Double.
After lunch a Black/Gold Flying C accounted for 2 more Shad, a small Pike and, having hooked and lost 3 when they threw the single barbless, an 8lb Hen Salmon went downstream instead of airborne so I was able to net this one.
The Shad and Chub were taken in the Bridge Pool but all the Salmon were hooked in one short section at the top of the Creel.
I've attached one photo looking upstream to Bridge Pool from the left and another of the right bank area where the Salmon queue up in low water!

1 Salmon, 1 Trout, 2 Chub, 1 Pike, 5 Other

Lost a large salmon from the island (church) stream which had rejected the fly but taken a blue rapala.

2 Chub

River in good fettle. Used micro riffling hitch flies, sunray shadows and franc n snaelda in various colours. Did not see a fish (salmon). Did not catch a fish ... but a wonderful bit of river. Thought provoking !

River was in good nick. Able to access pools OK. Tried micro hitch, sunray shadow and franc n snaeldas. Did not see a salmon. Did not catch a salmon. No such thing as bad day on the river. Saw my 1st swift, swallow and house martins of the season. Lots of mayflies hatching off. Grand day

8lb for Jim Morison from bridge pool on a size 10 willie gun and full floating line.

1 Salmon

With the gauge at Ross showing sub 0.3 wading is possible from the bridge to the ‘pipe’ where you can exit on the right bank, (just beyond new steps and a good 200mtrs below bridge), which gives you access to some terrific fly water. There is a definite lie midstream/midway from bridge to shallows, opposite leaning willow on left bank, as I had a fish there last season and a good pull there this time. The left bank, outside the Island is also an easy stretch with some excellent opportunities at this depth. Even using an intermediate tip and half inch tungsten tube-flies, various patterns, it rarely snagged the bottom. A very pleasant days fishing with no Salmon landed but one bar of silver of approx. 10lb got the heart racing when it jumped right over the rod-tip!

1 Chub

No salmon seen or caught.

1 Trout

Plenty of flow but a little too much colour in the water. First visit so not most productive of afternoons, but much potential in the beat. The "Island" looked most promising, but I doubt anyone has fished it for a while....machete tactics required to even get to see the water, let alone get to it!
One small trout to show for the effort, but one silver fish showing in the top of the pool. Pleasant afternoon and family enjoyed pottering about too, exploring the church and arriving at the river just in time to doubt the veracity of my trout!

1 Trout