hmmm you sound like myself,its quite a daunting place to get your head round. Ive had more sucsess at the sand pool than the rest.

as you entre the sand pool throw a gold bead head #6 woolly bugger (i weighted it with putty to) into the head of that rapid and swing it as close to the bank as possible,cross over to the little island i run a weighted rubber leg's up to alight brown sadle back and a dropper with a pheasnt tail..... ive had a coupling of good fish give me a schooling there but i dont really no the place all that well yet so take it as hear say

Are you talking about the little buggers that sit under the cliff face of admirals car park ?? i swear there just put there to piss me off.....ive had a crack from below at them every time i have been down usaly at dusk on the way home.I couldnt keep up with the rate the line was coming back down stream from below them,i try'd to cross the last time but got the s*#t's half way accros im not that confident....maybe you can wader accross further up and drop back down on the other side

I fish the cicada pool quite a lot and when there is a bit more water in the pool both the hole at the bottom is productive running flies from the shallow water down into the deep drop off. The best run for me in the pool is the inside or closer run of the two currents from about half way up to the head of the pool - I tend to use a 12ish foot leader in there (so long as the fish haven't been thrashed all day).