Barbara the Barbel Update - Pt5

With her shoulder still recovering post operation, it has been nice to have various lunchtime outings with Mrs Newey before she goes back to work after half term. The latest with the mouse jiggler employed as I was working from home, some lambs liver for starter and then Adana kebab for the main course.

Very nice it was indeed too with glass of Turkish wine to go with it. The Wife well she had some homemade lentil soup and a chicken kebab in similar vein to my Adana as shown below. Two courses for £14.50, which for me ain't a bad deal at all. Oh and to top it off a swift in Wetherspoons where a pint of Thornbridge Coltrane (very nice) was cica £2.50 I believe.

Anyway with another holiday on the horizon I only had a short session to try and get that fishing fix so with the gear to hand from the last session, it would be rude to not have another for the Barbara now wouldn't it. For this latest trip out though I'd go and fish an area that I'd not tried yet. 

Not a millions of miles away from where Barbara was spotted but another nice fishable swim because the river is still pretty high at the minute and that limits where the fish can get any kind of sanctuary. I cannot believe how little I've been catching, it's dented my piscatorial confidence I must admit. 

Anyway to cut a long story short, the river had dropped considerably since I was here last and the colour was dropping out fast too. Almost bread flaking trotting territory because it was dark grey in colour. Two rods the same approach as last time where nothing really happened apart from some nibble on worm until the light went. 

That's when the chub bites started where I managed a couple of swingers when the nightlights were needed to see the rod tips. Barbara or anything remotely big were in the swim sadly, but at least the weather was quite nice albeit it was a little nippy when the sun disappeared behind the trees. I fancy a small river fix next time, prior to that though I'll be casting in to salt water.