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None caught, although a fish seen at 9am by 1st Crib. Fished a 1.5" Willie Gunn with a 15ft 7ips tip. Thank you Jerry Lewis the ghillie, who kindly provided some excellent advice.

Fished Wyesham for the first time. Allocated the Dukes Water in the morning. Beautiful fly water at 1' 10" on the gauge but didn't see any salmon. Fished through all of the pools Joe Cobley advised on. Good clear advice given over the phone by Joe and easily translated into landmarks when on the bank. Met up at the hut for lunch and then went out on Cottage Pool in the boat for the afternoon. The advice was to put the fly a yard into the slack behind the crease cause by the croy and let the fly "dig in" before it swung across the crease, over the submerged rocks, and into the main flow. A fish showed at the end of the crease on the 2nd submerged rock. 10 minutes later as I covered that rock I had a fairly a tentative take on a 1 inch willie gunn copper tube and, 10 minutes after that, a sea liced 10lb springer graced the net. Thanks Joe !

1 Salmon

Wow! what a beat. I personally only fished a short stretch of the water and as we were leaving on the long drive home, we only fished for a short while. I would return to explore this water any time - and will do so at the first opportunity. I lost one really good brownie and returned another decent trout of around a pound in weight to fight another day.

2 Trout, 4 Other

Nice water no fish lots of smolts about.

No fish seen or caught, nice day though, nice beat. Will return to try my luck again

Plenty of midge, large dark olives and even what looked like a few iron blues coming off all day from about 3 until 7 and yet I didn't see a single fish rise all day. Maybe it is just a little early still. Caught one brownie maybe 6 inches on a small PTN on the bottom section of the beat.

1 Trout

Had a little difficulty finding the beat initially and spent most of my time just below and wading up about a mile from the stone bridge. Lovely stretch with high banks although this weekend the water was incredibly low and no bites over about a four hour period before giving up. Saw one fish kiss the water opposite the barracks but nothing else.

Started in the run at the very bottom of the beat around 10.30 and had a series of fish in the riffles, mostly 8-10 inches. Hooked and lost a good sized fish in the waterfall at the top of the riffles. by 1 p.m. the activity had calmed. 3 fish hooked and lost at the top end of the beat, but overall an enjoyable day which could have been trimmed to 10:30 t 14:00.

10 Trout

9 Trout

2 Trout