Tuesday 24 January 2017

Pull My String 2


Quick trip to the river and two missions; the first hour was spent trying to better my minnow PB from a shoal I spotted last week. I caught minnows and big ones - but they maxed out at 12 grams - goes to show how special that 18g fish was. The only other fish was a tiny stickleback - wonder where the gudgeon are?

I then swapped the 2.5lb line for 8lb, maggots for meat and went for a wander, searching for barbel in the clear water. I lost the biggest fish I spotted to a hook pull, probably wasn't a double but looked a good nine, never mind I landed four more of 7lb 4oz, 6lb 10oz, 4lb and 2¾lb, plus a bonus chub about 2lb.

That's 41 small river barbel this season - despite not really targeting them - would be nice to make it an even 50 before the season ends...

6 comments:

  1. Is there a record for Stickleback? I had a job a few years ago where a swimming pool had flooded from a river, was left about 5 years and needed refurb. It was full of Newts which the owners paid us to catch and put in a nearby pond, as well as the Newts I caught a single fish a Stickleback about 4" long the biggest I have ever seen.

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    1. 4 drams (7 grams). And if it was 4" long it would have smashed that. But you have to catch them on rod and line for them to count.

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    2. (This one was less than an inch).

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    3. cool catch one put it in a swimming pool for 5 years on its own then catch it with a rod.....simples.....

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    4. OK, but I'm putting it in my smaller swimming pool - I don't want to tie up the big one for 5 years!

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    5. (And I keep my pet pike in the jacuzzi).

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