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Well , Monday morning blues had to be shifted, so headed for one of my old stomping grounds , the Arrow at Kington !! Looking fab when I parked up and a gorgeous trouty height to the river too !!!

Fished between half nine and twelve this morning as had a few projects to crack on with at home . Warm and muggy reading fourteen in my truck when I initially set up my six foot two weight and opted for a tiny Parachute Iron blue which always does well here !!

Good solid splashy takes this morning ; all on the Iron blue or Adams in the fast water!! Great fun and some lovely tubby fish in a tally of nine . A few mayfly on the go from tenish , but previous seasons have shown me that they dont dine on them till mid afternoon here !!! Sizes from eight to eleven inches today ,.also two good fish lost on the barbless hooks !!!! Cest la vie !!!

Only got to the huge ash tree that's across the river , didn't fancy a scramble around it !!! So cut out into the field and bimbled back to the truck . Ohh and nice to see a style incorporated in the fencing , spot on !! I'm sure theres probably one up by the weir too !! A lovely session back home , a quick early dinner then crack on with some jobs !!! No peace for the wicked hey !!!! Lol !

9 Trout

Just thought it might be worth fishing the small overnight rise. Two small trout to an Usk grub early on, then the colour deteriorated quickly early afternoon. Not sure if it had a slight green tinge to it as well sadly.
No salmon caught or seen.

3 Trout

1 Trout

1 Trout

Early start on river for 7 30am . It looked like there had been a lift of two inches or so. The rock pool looked very inviting so we fished this first. I went down it first with the fly nothing to show . Then I spun it nothing doing. We then moved to the mill run, I was second down after Ian , Bang what a gentle take then the fish woke up, good fight, 16lb freshish, went back strongly. Fished the Rectory pool its self but could not catch another fish. One is better than none.

1 Salmon

Arrived at the river at 7 30 with BS, river looked in good nick and a tad higher. Brian fished the fly down first with me second but nothing , we then got the spinning rods out, I went right up the to the rapids at the top of the pool 4th cast and bang, yes I thought first fish of the year, sadly not to be but a great looking Chub and at 4lb was looking good.
We moved down to the Mill run, I went first this time fished an Alley shrimp with nothing touched. Brian came down with a single Usk Grub and bang, into a 16 lb lovely fish. I was gutted. We let the pool settle before I went back up to the top of the run and started to spin with a small rappala. Same place that Brian had his fish and BANG it was a salmon this time, 20lb of pure Wye muscle, returned strong. Fished the Rectory pool with no luck but the one fish will do me.

1 Salmon

6 Trout

Brown Trout and Shad for Tomasz G. Pike for Martin and another Shad for Robert. No Salmon had been encountered.

1 Trout, 1 Pike, 2 Other

no fish caught