First session of the year (shame on me!) and it wouldn't have made the thread had it not been something I've been trying to get on for the best part of a year.
My own small stream adventure...
The plan, if you can call it one, was to travel light and fish as many likely looking spots as possible with a tub of worms for bait as, being that this was the first time I've wet a line in this tiny river, I thought it might give me a reasonable insight as to what it holds in these upper parts.
To say I enjoyed it is an understatement, so many likely looking runs...
I was relieved to see the first tremble on the 1/2 oz glass tip if only to know I wasn't on a fool's errand and shortly after I had a small but beautiful, buttery flanked brownie.
Being such a tiny river I reckoned it was a catch and move situation and so I explored further downstream and caught more and slightly bigger brownies, they weren't the intended species and I'd wondered if the river held them...
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My missus actually owns the land on the far bank and holds the riparian rights but I wanted to explore further which meant fishing the bank I was on and shortly after another move I came across a lovely, steadier stretch of river. I'd had a few unintended brownies by this time and was beginning to fear a 'Trout out' when I settled into this 'Chubby' looking glide and what a backdrop...
And so came my reward, not in the form of Mr Chub but...
Over the moon!
Probably nothing more than a decent Roach on any other venue but it looked huge as it glided towards the net on such a small river.
To top things off I took several more Roach of a similar stamp from the same swim albeit with patient waits between bites along with what I suspect could've been a bumped Chub and, temperature and forecast permitting, i'll be returning next weekend with the trotting gear which I really do think will do the business.