With a busy day ahead after a rare lie-in I had a small window of opportunity to try and catch a chub or two from the untrodden. It was going to be an overcast day and almost 10 degrees lower than the day before which was nice and warm.
There was a threat of stormy weather or at least some rain later on as well so might as well make the most of the dry weather I suppose.
But so far this summer has been pretty rubbish hasn't it, where there doesn't seem a week with two consecutive days of decent weather. The river was alive with fish and after the session I decided to come back and fish maggots to see what I could pick up.
You can probably just make out the bits of bread over at the far side of the pool where after a good hour with only bleak and other maggot munchers providing interest, out of the blue an unmistakable wake of a good chub that took it off the surface, with quite a disturbance.
I didn't think it would take the piece of bread on the first cast but it did and under my polarised sunglasses it didn't mess around other like they can do sometimes, it had one mission and that was to get the bread.
Just under 4lb it was a nice summer chub and also gave a good fight because I was expecting it to be bigger when I teased it in to the net, still a nice chub.
I managed another 3 chub with the first being the biggest so not a bad return for only a couple of hours of fishing, because the river is back to low and gin clear again which can make the conditions tough. Fishing bread on the surface is a great tactic because you can cover a lot of water to see where those wary chub are holding up.
The soon wise up to it though so it can be boom and bust, and when they are cautious the are REALLY cautious, and you'd be wasting your time trying to catch one. Anyway that was my lot, I'd a mates 50th birthday BBQ to go to.
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