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fished all day no good

No catch

An Extremely solid 90cm cock fish. Estimated to weigh 17l-18lb Caught in a small tube on a 7wt fly rod. The fish was in control the majority of the time!

1 Salmon

Nice day out but no fish

2’1 on the gauge today with a nice tinge of colour.It was quite difficult casting heavy tungsten tips with the strong downstream breeze, but I wanted to fish the top catches, which I haven’t fished for a while, so spent the morning on both sets of boards on the Gromain and Radnor banks, covering Bachawy. The inevitable happened late morning and I had an unplanned swim. So I’m going to fail my audition as a trapeze artiste.
Early afternoon I had a solid take to the flyingC that I switched to in the Spring Pool but after a bout of head shaking it didn’t stick to the crushed barb hook. A probable salmon but after hooking a 6lb + Chub on a salmon fly a couple of days ago, and initially thinking it was a kelt, I couldn’t be sure.
The effects of my earlier dip set in by 4.30 and I was glad to get to a warm car.
A pleasant day nonetheless.

2 Trout

Lovely beat full of trout but no joy with the salmon.

5 Trout

did not fish river a tad too high

washed off today

A first day on the river since October courtesy of the autumn storms. A chilly 3.5C, gauge at 1’6”, probably a little too high still, but clear.
As at this time last year, the river seemed to be devoid of any grayling today with the whole length of the beat below the bridge being fished without an offer.
An OOS brownie caught late on in the flats saved a blank.
A fine, crisp day to be out though with easy wading on the boulders and bedrock, the spates having given the beat a good clean out.

1 Trout

First time on the beat trotting for grayling. Lots of tempting runs but struggled to find the fish. Could do with some local knowledge but lovely place to fish. Just one tiny grayling and 2 lost fish which spat the hook but they felt like trout so wouldn’t have counted anyway. Looking forward to my next session to see if I can do any better.

1 Grayling