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Thought I might be in luck, but alas saw no fish. Lovely water, will be back.

Fly fishing for salmon. Very little flow to move fly properly. 3 salmon seen, but nothing moved to fly.

3 Trout

I fished this delightful beat between 4 and 6.30 pm. I fished dry, mainly Adams and Sedge, but the anticipated rise never really materialised. It was a lovely stretch of river however and I will certainly return.

River dropped to 0.58m overnight but still carrying nice tint. A couple of fish moving on Rock. Saw a fish rush from under the rock to chase S.B.'s fly but turned away at last minute. A couple of shows at the pub. Fished for 8 hrs. Just one good pull each of indeterminate origin.

Whilst no salmon were caught several were seen running up stream. Fished both fly and spin. Water level relatively high and coloured from recent rain. Overall an excellent experience.

Water 0.78 and rising. Some colour so opted to spin.
John was first to contact a salmon fishing at the stair stage. The fish took a yellow FC but immediately surfaced, rolled and detached.
I changed to a yellow from red FC and hooked and landed a 9lb cock fish from the hole level with the sill above the rock. As the fish was landed another showed in the same spot.
These fish were moving and coincided with high tide 2.5 hours earlier. From then on the water rose throughout the evening. John Phillips accepted my invitation to fish but only contacted a 10 inch trout on the fly. When he left the river was almost .9m
Another successful day!! Up to 5 salmon for the season.

1 Salmon

The water is desperately low at the moment. I've never seen it so low. Hopefully this weekend's rain will help.
I saw many coarse fish and caught a lovely 1lb barbel I think it was. I saw a few trout, but mostly coarse fish.
I also found a poacher. Words were exchanged, and he refused to leave. I have written to the WUF about the incident.

1 Barbel

River 0.41m and clear. Took Charles to woodstream and got him roll casting with a single weighted nymph. He hooked a fish which, though not large, broke him, and he had no other offers.
We went for the last hour above the rock, where Gabe had landed a nice trout on one of his ancient wet fly patterns.
I got a few takes on dry dark olive but none hooked themselves on the lift so I went home empty handed.
A pint in the Chainbridge was just the job!!

River low and very clear. No takes early morning, due to the hot conditions stopped fishing at 10am and started again after 7pm hooked a Salmon below rock pool on a floating line size 8 double Salmon fly, fish moved forty yards upstream when the hook pulled.

River low and very clear. Not a great deal of flow. Fished a floating and intermediate head no takes to various Salmon flies. Lovely looking length of river above the bridge.