Friday 4 December 2015

Scratchen


Today James and I headed down to the Lower Itchen, where we met Mick and Jeff, and we all had our own plans. I had a potential personal best chub, grayling or roach to target...


Using the stick and pin I had plenty of these - the best perhaps scraped the pound mark...


Quite a few of these - out of season trout...


And a ton of these!


But every time I spotted a slack that might contain a pike, the pin was abandoned for a float fished / wobbled deadbait... But unfortunately the pike didn't want to play today.

It's a beautiful stretch of river, with long glides, deep holes and plenty of fish. And good company as we leap-frogged our way up and down the stretch (me hoping one of the others had seen a pike each time our paths crossed), as we fished into dark.

A good day's fishing, and I'm sure other reports of our collective successes and failures will appear on the respective blogs over the weekend...

2 comments:

  1. Wasn't what I expected but beautiful scenery all the same and spent some time with the Cows, chatting away with them to decide what would be my best plan of action for Roach

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    1. I think part of the problem was we paid to fish there so we stayed - should have continued exploring downstream.

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