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15 lbs salmon fly caught on stokoes shrimp.
The Vanstone pool.

1 Salmon

A wonderful day on Chainbridge, no salmon caught or felt but I saw at least 2 jumping and 1 other that may have been a large trout. One was under the bridge with the bigger one at the bottom of rock pool.
Lots of olives hatching throughout the day with the trout feeding pretty constantly, luckily I had my 5wt ????. I had around 10 trout, none under 1lb with the majority 1.5lb plus. The last fish of the day was a beaut around 3.5lbs! Whilst trout fishing I also had a lively little salmon parr out of the faster water. Super fun!

10 Trout, 1 Other

Having driven up I only managed a couple of hours at the bottom of the beat. Not a huge number of bugs hatching but there were still fish rising sporadically and, despite my usual incompetence, I managed to catch a few on dries and one on a nymph. Pretty cool in the valley with a gusty upstream breeze but the river looks good and not as thin as I feared. Lovely to be back.

7 Trout

Very changeable weather, more like April than June. River still low and clear, but the fish were happy to take the dry fly today.

14 Trout

Worm

2 Trout

Nothing showing and the weather was changeable. We could only fish until 14.30 then we got hit with a thunderstorm. Great day though.

9 Trout

Great day at the reservoir - windy and rainy weather brought out the trout. 9 trout and 2 perch, all caught on spoons & spinners.

Shame about the amount of litter around - pick up your rubbish, it's not that hard!

9 Trout, 2 Other

18’ on the river since we last fished, and a bit of colour after recent rain. J G Emerger took all the rising fish. Beaded PTN variant, Copper John and pink tagged hares ear worked on Euro-nymphing set up. Good mix of trout and grayling 7-13’ from each method.

13 Trout, 8 Grayling

18 Trout

The one ''other'', a Sand martin, took an an Adams F fly. Tied on a barbless emerger hook size 16 and hooked in the beak whilst on the wing, the Sand martin was safely released and flew strongly away. The Adams F proved to be popular with the trout as well.

11 Trout, 1 Other