It may seem I fish a lot looking at this blog, but the reality is my sessions are often short ie 2-4 hours, with 5 hours at a push. Little and often works for me because to be honest I struggle to sit behind motionless rods waiting for that bite which some sessions dictate.
Fishing at the right time and the right conditions for a particular species can often pay dividends and arrive a couple of hours before dusk like I did for this session, you're often in prime bite time. Those that say they haven't time for fishing, have a word with yourselves !! for me I need that fishing fix to keep on the straight and narrow.
I'd not fished this club water, well in this area anyway for a good while but it's usually good for a bite so I wanted to see what I'd been missing if anything ? A couple of anglers were just leaving as I arrived and I don't think they did any good, well they certainly were not forthcoming with any information !!
Unlike my old house in Birmingham thankfully no blatant exhibitionists to be seen here !!, just some nice fish to catch, as fishing opposite houses is not ideal as your effectively looking in peoples windows. The fish seem to like it here however and I've caught plenty of barbel in years gone by here. 😁. They are the odd one or two flitting about but they are certainly not in the numbers 'barbel alley' once had.
A proper lovely sunny day again it was too, so I was surprised after setting my stall out and pinging in a few pellets with a couple of pellets on the hair I had my first chub pull. I thought that would materialise into a fish eventually but didn't until I changed to a boilie and a paste wrap which was nailed by a fish after a few minutes of being out. That was quick !!, maybe they had been on the Carling.
I knew it was a chub and a decent one too but it was soon in the landing net using the 1.75TC Harrison Barbel rod. A lovely really stocky fish of 4lb and 7 ounces around 15 minutes of getting there. Happy with that !!!
I got the rod back out after returning the fish upstream and again after pinging in some pellets the rod top was starting to nod with another bite. I struck in to another solid fish, this one taking some line and giving me the run around. Another chub, this one far bigger than the first fish and went 5lb and 8 ounces on the scales.
This one built like a brick out house, not far off 60cm's in length and felt a decent fish as soon as I lifted the landing net. It felt cold when the sun disappeared and dusk came and oddly apart from a few more sharp twang's on the rod top, that 3 foot twitch never materialised.
Curfew had arrived and I'm sure I'd catch another chub if rules were not an issue, but to be honest with around 2 hours fishing I was happy with that. The chub seems to have a different statue down this neck of the woods, however because there is regular matches on here they do see more bait that than the stretches I usually fish.
I was in two mind to renew this book in the new season as I've only fished it a handful of times, but it could be getting back to some form and it's Soooo convenient and so much to go at it would be stupid not to really. It's certainly on my radar again anyway, happy days !!.
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