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A nice day to end the season after Friday’s deluge. 2’2, a little coloured, and a chilly 9degrees C. I had a bit of Déjà vu today, taking a fish from almost the same spot as 17th Oct last year.

You said to go up and see if one would come out of the Rock Pool Louis, but he took a bit further up in the Island Stream !
35”, maybe 17lb before he started his diet, and took a Red Devil conehead fished on a fast sink tip.
Only netted to unhook, in good condition, and went back strongly.

1 Salmon, 2 Trout

Had a v brief pull after first cast of the day. Nothing then in Gravel Catch, Bridge Pool and Island stream. Enjoyed the last day anyway and, as a rookie, was able to see small improvements in casting the salmon rod. Joe Cobley’s “more power” advice just beginning to bear fruit!
Thanks to Louis for his tips on fishing Gravel catch.

Nothing caught or seen today. The river came up 6”” during the day. Clear first thing but quite coloured by late afternoon.

Promising conditions at 7.15am but the river rose 3 or 4” through the day and started to colour up more as well. Still, it was very fishable and it was slightly disappointing not to see any salmon today.

2 Trout, 1 Grayling

Nothing touched or seen. Loud splash near bridge parapet a possible salmon. Water clearing first thing but coloured up by mid morning.

again nothing

Started at first light. The river had coloured up a bit and dropped slightly since midweek but still a nice pace for a fly in most pools. No takers today though.

1’11” on the gauge this morning and the river carrying a nice bit of colour.Dark , gloomy, chilly and drizzle. A* salmon fishing weather. And so it proved.
It’s been a while since I hooked and lost two salmon in a morning but unfortunately it happened again today.
The first, a smallish fish, around 7-9lb , maybe a grilse, which was on briefly in the bridge pool before jumping above the rock and freeing itself, and the other, a coloured cock fish in excess of 20lb, which took the same fly in the gravel catch. A brace of trout 14” and 15” from the same area , which also took the Red Devil conehead, didn’t quite ease the pain.
Actually, I wasn’t too despondent about losing the big boy this late in the season as, after a terrific scrap, I’d got the best of him before he slipped away a couple of yards from the net. Onwards and upwards.

P.S. The clearance work that has been done at Glanwye pool has made the access much easier.

4 Trout

River coloured and running high when we arrived, fished the Rock pool with clarity about 2/3 foot with no luck, down to mill pool and the same verdict, then we went to the Gravel catch, as soon as we arrived we saw a fish rise, also saw an otter and a kingfisher but no fish on the bank

river not what we expected fish all three pools with no luck, can't understand why spinning is not allowed now that it is single hooks and barbless hooks, makes no sense to what so ever, maybe somebody can tell me the reasoning