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Conditions were near perfect despite the wind, but not fish were showing. I had 3 shy-takes, presumable from salmon, but none were really hooked. At about 14:30, my new rod snapped mid-section and i hadn't brought my spare. A miserable end to the season!

Well another season draws to a close, worked hard all day I think I must have fished every catch on the beat late afternoon managed a 33inch hen fish from the Mill stream on a small Francis

1 Salmon

2 Salmon

A few fish seen in rock pool. Neighbouring angler had two salmon from tail of pool. Water a good height and colour. Great day despite not getting a touch.

Another great day on the Rectory. Fished solidly from 8.30am to 6.30pm. Water level at 1 foot 11" and barely dropped. Clarity perfect. Covered all the main pools but no pulls whatsoever. Then hit a pod of fish and had three takes in 5 casts, landing 12lb cock, and 10lb hen, and dropping another fish at the net. Chris Ryan, who had morphed from fishing mate catching trout to my ghillie for the day, apologised profusely for "operator error" but to be honest it was my own foul-up. I used one of Ken Evan's gold bodied Willie Gunn piglet on a floating line with an 8 foot slow sink poly leader. We carried on fishing and both had a couple of tentative pulls which didn't develop into proper takes and that was it. 20 minutes of frenetic activity and it was all over. But what a 20 minutes !

2 Salmon

Despite what felt like excellent conditions we failed to connect with a salmon. River rose and fell in small waves during the day bringing leaves and a little more colour. Several fish seen running through.

Water came up overnight and was heavily coloured until mid afternoon. Dropped slowly but only a foot of visibility until late in the day. Not a touch until 5pm and then 3-4 trout in quick succession. No salmon but a couple seen in Rock and one seen in Gravel Catch. Tomorrow will be a day to remember for someone.

3 Trout

Quick fish in the gravel catch, NTR.

One suicidal (and out of season) trout

1 Trout

River 1ft 5" holding all day. Contact with a fish in the Rectory pool (standing on the rock at the top and took in the fast run below) but it fell off after 30 seconds or so.