An early start saw me & James head out into the frost - the plan was to wander down The Itchen from the fast flowing water in search of grayling to the slower water with the hope of a winter roach...
Travelling light (even for us) we worked our way down - stopping briefly in likely looking spots to run a float through - then moving on - we had a lot of water to cover. I'll let the photos tell my story...
Five grayling to just over a pound...
Loads of brown trout - had to get a photo of this beauty...
A very rare (for this section) bream...
But the main event was the roach in a slower section...
Fifteen roach landed, several over a pound, to 1lb 7oz...
A brilliant day's winter wandering!
cracking roach, well done!
ReplyDeleteCheers Adam. I also caught a minnow, forgot to mention the minnow!
DeleteWhat a great day.
ReplyDeleteLove days like that - minimum of kit, net on your back and see where the day takes you - a perfect wander!
DeleteA lovely way to fish !!! and a good day by the looks of the pics
DeleteFantastic day, and some fab fish - looking forward to doing it again soon...
DeleteThoroughly enjoyed that day, even if it was bloody hard going, at least we had a nag for good few hours and drowned some maggots.
ReplyDeleteGreat day even though the grayling were playing hard to get. All that effort tracking down some maggots and bread was the killer bait..!
DeleteI know, I did think that when I was looking back on the session, but, I do think the maggots stimulated the Roach into feeding, without them I think we would have had far fewer.
DeleteThink I caught my first 7 or 8 on maggots but once there was bread in the water that’s all they wanted. It was interesting they only wanted a moving bait - all info stored for next time...
DeleteCracking roach
ReplyDeleteCheers, got to love roach when they reach that size (and bigger :-)
DeleteNice session, that roach looks bigger.
ReplyDeleteCheers. They always look bigger than their weight to me, can’t wait until I’m peering down at a ‘two’ in the net!!
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