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Had a quick trip last evening with my girlfriend after a birthday weekend away but  just had to report this one! It was nice to find a few fish about and Alison landed her first ever sea trout about 2.5lb after a good scrap, tail walking etc rather fortunately I managed to net it before the hook fell out! Pleased as punch it was quickly released but not content with one she handed the rod back to me in the next pool and I hooked another and she did a superb job at controlling it despite the rushes, tree roots etc another mint fish about 3lb firmly hooked in the scissors and also released.  Rather fittingly these first fish were caught where her grand father a former chairman of AVRA used to take water from the river for holding tanks which he used for stocking the river with sea trout and salmon some years back. Alison remembers seeing these little fish in tanks with her grand father as a small girl!