The weather really has been glorious of late, spring has definitely sprung and I can already feel my mood changing for the better. The fishing though of late to be honest hasn't been particularly productive, ok I've caught a few nice fish but I seem to be struggling for bites for some reason, so for this morning session I fancied fishing for anything that comes.
So it was out with the bronze maggots to try and catch some chub. There was a match on here yesterday so I did wonder if the fishing would be tough, but I need not worry to be honest.
I arrived at an empty car park to a bright sun just on the rise and decided to fish a swim where the river is pretty shallow but it also seems to hold fish. I'm no trotting expert but I'm more than confident now to run the float through, mend line and obviously feed regularly.
The were dead reeds right out in front of me and to the side, so not ideal to be able to land the fish but thankfully there was a little gap that was just wide enough as otherwise it might have posed a problem.
Anyway a bite first cast after 15 minutes of feeding little and often without running the float down, I really did not expect that. !! It was a nice chub of around 2lb with the 15ft Diawa rod doing its thing perfectly, having to tease it away from any other fish in the swim in a slow and confident pull upstream in pretty pacey water.
Then another fish soon after, wow, I'm enjoying this. Over the next hour and a half I caught around 10 chub with the smallest around 1lb and the best maybe a 3lber. Not massive but it was exactly how I wanted it to play out, and all from one area of the swim.
Now Nic had put me on to these, Guru size 20 Super MWG hooks which incidentally held strong when he landed a barbel trotting maggots on the Avon recently, and I must admit, the hook hold on all the chub I caught were all excellent, they were certainly not coming off that's for sure.
Once the sun came from behind the houses though and was illuminating the swim the bites dried off completely, and another hour and a half trotting without even a bite in the killzone I decided to knock it on the head and go and enjoy the sun instead.
I was just in my long sleeve t-shirt at the end of the session and that was at 10.00am and apparently it's going to reach 17 degrees or so. A really enjoyable morning and I really need to do more trotting to be honest as I really enjoy it when I do and there is nothing more satisfying seeing a float bury under the surface and you lift the rod in to a solid fish.
Sadly no barbel showed it was a chub chub chub, but nothing wrong with that when they put up a good account for themselves. On to the next one !!
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