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Fished the very top of gromain water at the bachawy pool, was falling but still holding a bit of colour looking good for the next few days.

The wind and rain finally held off for a few hours so I had a day just fishing the top half of the beat to the end. There's some great stretches here with easy access and casting. A few tiny flies hatching, not enough to bring on a rise, but there were a few rising and I managed to catch 8 trout, one a good 14 or 15 inches. All took a small size 16 emerger pattern.

8 Trout

Nice looking river, slightly coloured. We caught 3 tiny trout 5 inch each. Still hoping for warmer weather and a good hatch...

3 Trout

Good conditions in the morning, several fish seen and covered to no effect. River rose and coloured up a lot during the afternoon forcing us to abandon fishing at 4 pm. A great beat and a very enjoyable day.

Coloured cock fish of c.13 lbs, taken on a conehead tube in high and somewhat coloured water.
A second fish lost, on briefly.

1 Salmon

All fish taken on meat hookbait and hemp a halibut crushed pellet in feeder . Some fish lost but biggest was nearly a double figure

9 Barbel, 1 Chub

An excellent finale today after an infuriating start. The height at around 1ft 9ins was perfect but the water peaty and coloured though the clarity was an improvement on last Friday.

Fished down Bridge Pool at 11am with 3/4ins Willie Gunn tube. Nothing showing until a large fish jettisoned itself at the fly between the visible mid-stream rock and the submerged one closer to the bank. I felt the pull, the rod bent and line was taken followed quickly by nil contact. On pulling the line in I discovered that my leader had developed an unhelpful liaison with a wind knot which provided the unhappy explanation. Good to have James K following me down the pool to witness this ineptitude.

Fished Gravel and Rock pools with no takes or fish seen and then gave it a rest until 5.45pm when I fished the Bridge once again with a #8 Usk Grub. I had expected the water clarity to have improved but there was little change before the rain fell heavily once again. A very gentle take in almost slack water above and slightly on the inside of the submerged boulder turned out to be a massively strong 28lb (42ins head mid-tail) cock salmon eventually brought to the bank and returned very positively having never left the water. My largest salmon to date.

I fished down again to see if I could tempt a second fish that had shown whilst playing the first but nothing doing.

1 Salmon

Not a day for trout fishing, this! The river was in flood yesterday and the gauge was down so didn't know how high the river was. Took a flyer and went anyway ... To be honest it was a waste of time... there was not a sign of any fish of any species. Most notably, there was no sign of running salmon. I met a gentleman called Mike and he gave up at lunchtime. I plowed on in the hope, but to no avail. Better luck next time Mike!

Later in the day, the gauge was back on and the river must have been around 2.

11 Barbel, 3 Chub

4 Barbel, 5 Chub