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Spinners pealing off sporadically throughout the day with the occasional trout rising. A few tugs but unfortunately nothing brought to net.

Cloudy bright, breezy, river in perfect order, but disappointingly a complete blank. Very few fish showing.

9 Browns caught. Most fish on a dry Adams, 1 on a PTN. Largest fish 14 inches. Average size 10 inches. Nice stretch of river and good fly hatches. Big Olive hatch and some Mayfly around.

9 Trout

Fishing the fly, clear low water, had a couple of tugs, not sure if salmon, but no other action. Beats were varied and interesting. Terry was an excellent host -friendly, informal and very helpful in offering advice

3 Browns caught on gold head. Water clear but swims will be inaccessible in a couple of weeks due to vegetation. Had to cut visit short as farmer fertilising in fields.

Chris Howell caught his first ever salmon from the Vanstone pool. Fresh Fish weighed 11 lbs and took a F/C.
A H lost a fly caught fish at the net from the dog hole.
Mick gave a great introduction to the water.

1 Salmon

Salmon 16lbs caught 11am. lovely fish, been in the river for about a week, good fight

1 Salmon

Glad I made the long trip today! River very clear with a good flow, mainly olives and midge but other types also out. Saw a couple of splashy rises when setting up so went with the para adams. Found fish willing to rise just about everywhere, more so when I switched to a para olive as that was the main fly. Eventually landed 20+, from 6" to 12", and missed or lost as many - mainly from the slow water where they could see the leader. They have certainly switched on now, what a great day.

20 Trout

Fished for about 5 hours on an overcast day with an increasing downstream breeze. River low and clear with about half a dozen fish seen rising. 8 trout, mostly 6-9 inches, caught with a similar number unhooking themselves. 5 were caught on CDC dry flies and 3 caught nymphing with a tungsten beaded nymph.
Note: The several pieces of silver foam that have been put over the barbed wire fences to enable you to reach the start of the beat are breaking up and need replacing. Luckily I had brought a tea towel with me which enabled me to get over them without ripping my waders.

8 Trout

My first time to this beat and it was a pleasant change not to have to duck under the branches or negotiate barbed wire to get to it. Casting was very easy too. The trout were rising quite well to hawthorn flies and even took my imitation despite the fact that this had long since lost the trailing legs to bankside vegetation on another beat. The beat does need more water though and a good wash-through. I can't help thinking that anything much larger than 6 inches here will be picked off by avian predators, as there is not a lot of cover.

4 Trout