Double Double Delight for Carp Angler and Cooperman
Rik Belenger (Carp Angler) and I fished the lower Severn onFriday evening and caught just three barbel, (writes Dave Cooper) butthey did total a combined weight of 30lb 2oz!
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The river is currently very low and slow-flowing, perhaps notideal barbel conditions on the lower Severn, but with the warmafternoon and evening we were confident of a fish or two.
First out at around 8pm was a 10lb 2oz fish for me, improving mypersonal best by 4oz and my first double-figure barbel. It took aboilie fished over a bed of seed and pellet.
It was then slow going until after 11:00pm and we were thinking ofpacking up. Indeed I did pack up and sat talking to Rik who wanted”just another 10 minutes”. Rik then got a screamer of a run and wasinto his first fish which tipped the scales at 8lb 14oz.
This obviously led to “just one more cast”. Rik’s rod tip wasgiving a few indications that another fish was in the area andeventually the third fish took at around midnight. “I don’t thinkit’s that big” he said as he played the fish towards the net. Forsomeone who has caught barbel to 12lb off the stretch before it mightnot have been, but you could have fooled me as it only just went inthe net and pulled the scales to a superb 11lb 2oz.
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Both of Rik’s fish took boilies fished in conjunction with amethod feeder loaded with a pellet and hemp mix.
We may not have got into our beds until well into the small hours,but we were very happy boys having both experienced ‘doubledelight’.
Double Dog
All the time this was going on, me, Dave Colclough and Dave Dowding(Mr Wriggles) were down in sunny Suffolk sampling the delights ofsome gravel pit bream bashing for three nights (writes GrahamMarsden).
On the first night Dave D opened his account with a nice fish of8lb 12oz, and then I followed up with one of 8.11 and lost a fishthat felt pretty big when it slipped the hook. Dave C lost onelater.
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On the second night I nobbled an 11.8.
On the third night I got two more, a 6.2 and a 9.12, while bothDave’s had fish slip the hook.
Not a lot of fish for three anglers over three nights, but morethan we expected, for we’d heard that the pit had fished terrible inthe past few weeks. We went ahead with the trip though, for the goodcompany of Mr Wriggles and the smell of good food and otherrefreshments beckoned quite strongly.
All my fish fell to double 10mm Activ-8 boilies, while Dave’s cameto his own make single 14mm Marine Supreme boilie on Method feederrigs at 50yds range. The swims were fed with spodded particle andtrout pellet.
