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Windy, hot and sunny with river low and clear. Beautiful location and the hill going down to the fishery is not nearly as bad as previous reports suggest. The main problem is the lack of swims you can access. I'm quite happy to bash my way down the bank Jungle warfare style but I'm sure there are a lot of anglers that would prefer easier access and a greater choice of swims for their £15 a day. The Croy swim at the top of the fishery looked great but was too windy on the day so my Dad and I fished one of the slower deeper swims in the first meadow. I had one chub of about 3lb and a nice Barble of 8lb on cage feeder and pellet. Dad just had one small chub on trotted bread flake. During the day we spotted a Kite, Peregrine, kingfisher and Buzzards. Lovely spot with great potential just make sure you travel light!

Nil return.

No fish spotted, another disappointing day. Maybe tomorrow will be better.

No salmon caught or seen, had 1 chub on the fly and hooked 2 small trout.

1 Trout, 1 Chub

River a bit low but majestic. Three cracking brown trout (9") all to Cascade size 10, all returned.

3 Trout

Didn't arrive until about 11am and had to leave by 5pm, but the few hours I managed were great fun. This is certainly not a beat for the faint-hearted! Access is pretty tricky in places and even a six foot cane rod feels a bit over-gunned at times. But the six trout I enticed out were in lovely condition, the best around 12 inches. The only downside was that the grass in all the surrounding meadows was throwing off pollen at an alarming rate for a hay fever sufferer. I may try again in September when it's calmed down.

6 Trout

11 x trout 6-14 inches, 4 x grayling 7-14 inches, fishing a pair of spiders with a French leader. Intermittent blue winged olive hatches during an afternoon which was cold, cloudy, with a downstream wind and very low water. However, it rose about 3 inches during the late afternoon (must have been raining somewhere) which may account for the hen salmon, about mid-teens weight and slightly colored, which unexpectedly snatched the size 14 Dark Moorgame on the point and went off for a canter round the pool jumping occasionally. With a 10 foot 3 weight rod I felt somewhat over-matched, and eventually we parted company, but it was interesting for a while.
More late salmon news from PYF: Brian Skinner had a coloured fish of 12 pounds with spinner on the 16th June, which makes 2 for our season so far. On the 24th June, unusually, he had a pair of sea trout, 2.5 and 4 pounds, also on spinner from Coffin Rock Pool.

1 Salmon, 11 Trout, 4 Grayling, 2 Other

2 small trout on the fly, river very low.

2 Trout

River clear but still flowing well. A few assorted flies hatched but no concerted response from the trout, so again I searched the water with paras. These sparked reasonable interest, of which I landed 6. 5 were in the 7 to 9" range, and one a real stonker at 15", on a para adams and who gave me a real fight on the light gear in the rapid water next to tree roots where he was lurking. Truly memorable!

6 Trout

Up to get on the bank by 6.30am hoping to catch an early feeding spell. Should have stayed in bed! Eventually caught my first fish around 10.30am, a nice Chub at 4lb 1oz. Fish came slowly after that throughout the day. Seemed to be no chance of getting them to feed but every couple of hours one would turn up. Andy Murray, the scenery and the wildlife all made this a memorable day as well. Ended up with 4 Barbel and 2 Chub. Barbel were 7lb 0oz, 6lb 2oz, 5lb 9oz and the finale was the best of the two days at 8lb 8oz. The second Chub was around 2lb.0oz. As always thoroughly enjoyed myself so thanks very much to the Foundation for the access to the fine fishing. We have nothing to compare down this way.

4 Barbel, 2 Chub