Sam is as keen as ever at the moment which is probably because the weather has been good. That good weather though has meant that without any rain the river is very low indeed, and that means that the fishing is very tough indeed on the Warwickshire Avon.
It's always like this to be honest and that is probably why there doesn't seem to be that many anglers about, apart from those that are fishing the matches where that diary entry forces them to go fishing.
Sam is a dab hand at fishing for chub off the top and that is often the way to get a bite in these conditions. I wanted to fish in to dusk and half an hour beyond whilst we were there, because I'd spotted a barbel in one particular swim the other day that look a double at least.
From an elevated swim out the corner of my eye I noticed it milling around some streamer weed where it ignored the bread going past its noggin and proceeded to swim upstream, where it tucked itself out of the way under some cover.
After baiting up the swim we'd fish in to dusk we went on the rove to try and catch some chub off the top but they were having other ideas. Well the bigger ones anyway because we caught a few smaller chub in different swims.
The last swim before we settled down to fish static area we had a good head of chub taking bread off the top and slow sinking but they were not stupid at all. We had a few opportunities where twice decent sized chub had inhaled the bread and it disappeared from view but we both failed to hook up.
Then another failure when another decent chub was lost when it carted right under the cover and was never seen again.
Eventually I managed a small chub that took some slow sinking bread but that scuppered that swim because we never saw the chub again.
The sun was setting though so it was time to try for a barbel and I couldn't get anywhere near the rod because Sam was insistent he would man the rod.
A long fluorocarbon hook length with a size 12 hook and a small robin red pellet went out half an hour before dusk and we sat back waited.
A PVA bag of freebies went on the end of the hook to hopefully get the barbel to home in on the hookbait.
The odd chublet pull started was the light went but to be honest it was very quiet indeed because I fully expected at least a chub from this swim.
We had a curfew time because otherwise Sam who loves his sleep wouldn't be up till late morning. With literally two minutes to go the classic bang bang, on the rod tip and then a classic 3 foot twitch where Sam struck in to nothing !!!
"Oh, for flips sake, !!what happened there, there's no fish on ? !! "
"God knows, you should have hooked up if that was a barbel, it looked like a barbel bite to me"
I cast out again with another PVA bag on but despite past curfew he didn't get another chance.
Sam donned the head torch on the way back to the car thankfully because the amount of insects really was quite ridiculous.
So a disappointing session because of the outcome, however it's nice to fish with a keen young angler who is actually thinking like a fisherman and how to out smart those bigger fish in testing conditions. I'm sure it will come good in the end, fingers crossed anyway. On to the next one !!
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