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River fast flowing and discoloured. No fish seen rising during period fished (10-2pm). No fish caught.

Fresh 10 pound salmon from Arnie's Pool on size 8 Red Francis at 8pm - water evidently clear enough for modest-sized fly.

Prospects looked better than the previous day with the water fining down but still coloured. First visit to this beat so I relied on info from Simon from WUF for the likely hot spots on this height (2'2" at Lanstephan). He came up trumps - I scored with a colouring 10 lber from the Bachawy wading almost up to my armpits (water not particularly deep but I don't own long legs !!). I latched onto another for a few seconds off Green Bank which came to nothing. Several trout for all 3 rods, 1 around the 3 lb mark. Other rods had no luck with salar.

No Salmon seen or cought, A 4.5lb chub got the heart pumping for a moment and a seatrout about 1.5lb, but no salmon. Water very dirty.

Nil salmon caught - 1 salmon seen and 3 small brown trout returned.

Nil salmon caught - 1 salmon seen and 3 small brown trout returned.

Landed a coloured 10lb cock fish in the morning (Llanstephan gauge at 2'5"). Nothing else seen or touched.

Did not catch
River was high and coloured

Not a good day. The river rose 6" during late morning and early afternoon, chances being almost zero in my book. The lunchtime Rectory catches would suggest otherwise, but the beat is downstream and perhaps the water had not reached there.
I was a little frustrated that it was not classed as a wash off. Another frustration is the condition of infrastructure on the beat. All the wading boards are in a serious state of disrepair, I could not get on the upper boards at all.
One day someone will get hurt.
However, I think the real problem is that I am not catching fish and S.E. is....

River was high and dropping however it was quite dirty.
Salmon seen but none interested in my selection of flies, except for a large brown trout, which I returned.