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8lb hen from Mill stream, size 8 Bann Shrimp, one heck of a scrap.
Water more coloured than I would have expected.

1 Salmon

River at 1ft 8" and 30" visibility. Started well with a 10-11lb coloured hen fish from the Island stream at 6.30am. Only fshed Island, Rock and Bridge and then it was 8.30am and time to go to work. River coming in nicely but not much showing; only saw 2, both between the stones and the wires in Bridge.

1 Salmon

1ft 11ins and still very coloured this morning. NTR

River level meant no fishing for me today !

Spinning high and coloured water (2 ft 9ins slowly falling to 2ft 6 inches). NTR

An excellent finale today after an infuriating start. The height at around 1ft 9ins was perfect but the water peaty and coloured though the clarity was an improvement on last Friday.

Fished down Bridge Pool at 11am with 3/4ins Willie Gunn tube. Nothing showing until a large fish jettisoned itself at the fly between the visible mid-stream rock and the submerged one closer to the bank. I felt the pull, the rod bent and line was taken followed quickly by nil contact. On pulling the line in I discovered that my leader had developed an unhelpful liaison with a wind knot which provided the unhappy explanation. Good to have James K following me down the pool to witness this ineptitude.

Fished Gravel and Rock pools with no takes or fish seen and then gave it a rest until 5.45pm when I fished the Bridge once again with a #8 Usk Grub. I had expected the water clarity to have improved but there was little change before the rain fell heavily once again. A very gentle take in almost slack water above and slightly on the inside of the submerged boulder turned out to be a massively strong 28lb (42ins head mid-tail) cock salmon eventually brought to the bank and returned very positively having never left the water. My largest salmon to date.

I fished down again to see if I could tempt a second fish that had shown whilst playing the first but nothing doing.

1 Salmon

Gave it an hour with 1 rod fishing and the other on the shoulder, but by 7am the river was up to 3ft and colouring fast so packed up and went downstream. Fish running through, saw fresh grilse when looking off bridge at the 6.10 start...persuaded us to give it a go, and 3 more in gravel catch when fishing it.

Water at an ideal height and falling BUT chocolate coloured. A couple of fish seen but nothing felt!

2 Trout

Arriving around 4pm, and speaking to some guys who had been fishing, they said the river was dropping and clearing... Tried a few pools and runs, as usual saw a couple moving in the Gravel catch, other wise no action. Good height, water bit too dirty.

Water dropped quickly but that didn't stop Simon Evans from taking a fish after me in the mill stream ! Had one boil at a hitched tube and that was all.