On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:27:36 +0100, "W. D. Grey"
wrote:

In article , james.willsden
writes
Went fly fishing over the bank holiday - river very low - about 12" down on
last season.I was completely staggered by looking down at a pool and seeing
15 / 20 + salmon in about 6ft of crystal clear water. During a period of
about 3 hours watched 15lb + fish to 5/6 lb lying with several just cruising
around, all silver fish - what a sight!
Mike



Here in the Swansea valley we're entering the silly season when the EA
usually start on their erosion prevention schemes or flood defence
schemes and the river runs filthy. Any salmon that make it to the
spawning redds probably suffer from scilicosis !

A couple of salmon have been take recently - fish of around the 6 lbs
mark

Had a look up the Ribble below Settle yesterday for a couple of hours
with the fly - no sign of any showing yet although I know there are
fish further down stream
Keith