A day on the local river today in search of some barbel and hopefully a decent chub or two. Rolling meat and a mobile approach was the technique, and it wasn't long before I found some barbel.
I got a few barbel on the books (five) then went in search of chub, landing quite a few of them, in fact I lost count, the best going
4lb 2oz above and
3lb 10oz below. Result!
After my five barbel morning I had taken my season total up to 45 - time for a wander about looking for a few more - hopefully some bigger ones, perhaps even a double.
I didn't find a double, instead I bumped into a few mates spread over the river, I like fishing on my own but sometimes it's great to fish with a group.
Stu, Richard, James and myself put the world to rights and talked all things fishing. And it probably looked a bit daft, 4 anglers crammed into swims just big enough for one...
Fishing took a back seat, mostly one person fishing while the other three had a laugh - but I did manage the 5 more barbel I needed to make 50! A great day's fishing!!
The barbel went 1½lb, 4lb, 5½lb, 5lb, 5½lb, 6lb 7oz (above),
7lb 7oz (below), 3½lb, 2½lb and 2lb for the records. Season total: 50 barbel, 191lb 11oz - not bad for 6 trips.
Great fishing and great to have laugh with mates. Roger
ReplyDeleteThanks. Nice to have a reminder now and again to not take it too seriously!
DeleteNice dangling Mr Roberts. Although after the weekend I had I think I'm going to give up fishing lol
ReplyDeleteCheers. I thought you had the whole weekend on the river, what went wrong?
DeleteThe fish just were not in the mood up my end of the river, in 12 hours on the bank I managed a total of 3 Dace, one lost Brownie (nice one at that) and two missed wrap around Barbel bites. Oh well
ReplyDeleteSometimes they just don't want to play. But that's weird one section fishing and one shutting up shop. The chub especially were on the munch, normally they are really easy to spook - not Saturday. Perhaps the section you fished had been thrashed during the week.
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