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River 0.52m on gauge clear. Early start, fishing by 7am. Fished fly till lunchtime. A salmon showed on Rock pool and just below Chine. No interest in my offerings. Left early and just missed deluge of rain.

All very quiet again. Very little surface activity at all.
2 decent trout to 10 inches caught on a PTN variant, both returned.

2 Trout

River at 0.65 and falling. Already very clear. No moving fish seen.

Chainbridge WUF webcam showing 1ft, water slight colour, some cloud cover, warm and breezy. Lost 12/14lb cock Salmon at the net in Rock pool, it took size 10 usk grub mid stream 10 yards above first tree after the last casting platform on the right bank. Two others showed in the pool during the battle. Fished on until dark and did not see a fin, except two small trout and some salmon parr. Quite odd, as after a promising start all went very very quite for the following 10 hrs, not even spinning or a sunray shadow produced a response anywhere.
Can't complain as beautiful day and had a classic take followed by a really very violent run as shooting head and running line was submerged and the fish lept out back upstream of me as 10-15m of backing was ripped off before a dogged scrap set in - just amazing, slightly disappointed not "landed".
Many thanks to WUF as ever and owner for access.

2 Trout, 2 Other

Arrived at 6.45am (early start from Wiltshire) River 0.78m nice tint falling slowly. Fished for 7hrs without sign of salmon spinning and fly. Then had (another) impromptu lesson from Tom Hannon, during which a fish showed toward the end of Rock pool. Single spey markedly improved, an hour later a red cock fish of 8lb accepted my Golden Killer (Russian pattern) off the tip of Rock. Kindly netted by Tom and safely returned. My first fly caught Usk salmon. A lovely day (suntan included!).

1 Salmon

Started at 9.00am then the torrential rain started river rose rapidly so left, will be back another day.
Nothing caught.

Nil Return.

Short time trout fishing, evening and morning. Trout rising to dry fly; too quick for this old soul. Sporadic rises throughout day, especially the areas in the wood's shade. Stayed at Swanmeadow, lunch and a beer at The Black Bear, super.

Fished with G late evening down woodstream. I landed 4 and G 1 on partridge and orange and deerhair sedge 14 fished subsurface. Had fish on both. Reverted to dry at The Rock for last half hour and landed one at half pound and lost the best fish of around one and a half lb after a few minutes battle. Both took the wulff.
Great sport but need some rain to help the fishing.

7 Trout

Not as productive as Monday but still landed and returned 7 fish, best 12oz, with 5 taken on pheasant tail nymph with lureflash tail, and 2 late on on dry wulff including the largest which smashed the wulff when tweaked across the current below rock. Some good trout come up the streamy bit out of the Chine late on but they are very wary and difficult to get them to take.
Water 19 deg and 0.4m

7 Trout