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Fished during afternoon with salmon rod /fly for a couple of hours, the pools down to Heirag on upper section, thundery rain showers, No salmon but had a nice pull from a lively 8oz brown that took a cascade, something anyway on the line and pleasant to be there despite the showers. No fish rising at all that I could see.

1 Trout

A small mayfly hatch during the first half of the afternoon brought up a few of the smaller fish. Only one large fish was feeding, but only on the natural.

5 Trout

Arrived at 10am, weather was overcast and warm followed by some sun before clouding over with a heavy shower or two. I fished Island Run and Rock Pool till 2pm. A lovely bit of river with quite easy wading upto about waist deep. There was very little surface activity to begin with but a fish topped just upstream of where I'd entered the water which I took on a mayfly dry on my second cast, a promising start! I then tied a gold head nymph New Zealand style to my CDC winged mayfly which I ran through Island Run taking fish on both flies but mostly to the nymph.
A few flies of various varieties could now be seen emerging but not in enough numbers to get the trout excited, although I did find a few fish rising between me and the near bank, I hooked one before it shook the hook free and spent quite a few minutes trying to tempt another which steadfastly refused all I threw at it! A very pleasant few hours, 10 trout and 2 Grayling all of a very good average size, except one small Grayling, biggest trout 15 inches, all released.

10 Trout, 2 Grayling

good days fishing

4 Trout

A 30" COLOURED HEN SALMON OF 12.5 LB ON FLY. UNHOOKED IN THE WATER WITHIN THE RESTRAIN OF A MICRO MESH LANDING NET AND RELEASED WITHOUT COMING OUT OF THE WATER.

1 Salmon

1 Salmon

Return visit from a couple of days ago to fish the lower sections. The river is in reasonable condition but the slowest sections are a bit murky.
Massive amount of fly life throughout most of the day but with very little surface activity. Managed to rise 7 on deer hair emerger and yellow may fly pattern. Best was 11". For those that don't know -( I didn't) - the bottom fields on both banks are camping and caravanning sites. I only fished there as I spotted a few rises but I failed to connect. I suspected that these fish were a fair size. Managed not to hook a tent or the helpful child who was lobbing rocks into the river.
Moved upstream and stayed until 6:00ish when thunder indicated a storm approaching - so decided it was not best to stand in a river with a 10' lightning conductor in my hand!

7 Trout

Strange day that promised a lot but delivered little.
Plenty of fly life and fish rising - but could not tempt them. Tried the whole fly box. Ended up with 2 10" wbt and 1 8" oos grayling, one on a small olive, one on a grayling steel blue and one on something small and brown.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Nice day out, Lost a very good salmon on a Rapala (20lb+). Hooked the fish and 3 minutes later the plug came back and the treble was crushed. Stronger hook next time. Also turned another smaller fish and missed a good take in Loxters. Saw 5 fish all day. Thanks to Terry again for the help.
10 shad, 1 perch

11 Other

1 Small Brown trout taken on a nymph, Very little surface activity. No fish taken. Nice location, great day out and friendly landowners at Ashford house. Found some of the deep wades to fish in the pools were challenging for relatively inexperienced fly fishers, thoroughly enjoyable though. On-line booking really easy and efficient, thanks.

1 Trout