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A game of two halves.
Today started badly and just got better by the hour.
Two different venues was a carefully laid plan today. A 4am start on the river Stour in what I believe is a barbel swim having seen one there last week. Thought I had not forgotten a thing...wrong! Left my roving bag in the garage complete with barbel bait (boilies) and some loaded pva bags
mg: a rummage around found me a single boilie and I took a handful of pellets that were destined for the next venue. As it happens it made not a jot of difference, after 90 minutes I hadn’t seen a fish other than a lone chub. The advice is...”if you haven’t seen them after two hours of daylight give it up for the day”,so with some reluctance I made the short trip to venue number two.
Stonar lake, the target Rudd. Getting onto potentially the best swim has about as much chance as Germany failing to qualify from the group stage, so there I was in the “sheds”swim feeling rather happy with myself.
After a biteless hour I adjusted the float and fished on the bottom at about 10ft, within minutes I had a sail away bite and thought I’d hooked a tench or small carp, it was a lovely sight to see a flash of red and gold and a fighter it was too, eventually netted and I had a pb Rudd at 2lb 4oz.
Eight hours later another 46 Rudd, all requiring a net bar three, six bream and a solitary roach. Many of the Rudd going to 1lb 8oz.
Just to round things off in style, the last Rudd was also the second largest at a tad under two pound, the first caught at 10ft deep, this one just 10” below the surface.
I chose to use a rod instead of the usual whip, glad I did, some of these fish would have been lost otherwise,
A rare red letter day after a bad start, just need ENGERLAND to make the day perfect.
Today started badly and just got better by the hour.
Two different venues was a carefully laid plan today. A 4am start on the river Stour in what I believe is a barbel swim having seen one there last week. Thought I had not forgotten a thing...wrong! Left my roving bag in the garage complete with barbel bait (boilies) and some loaded pva bags
mg: a rummage around found me a single boilie and I took a handful of pellets that were destined for the next venue. As it happens it made not a jot of difference, after 90 minutes I hadn’t seen a fish other than a lone chub. The advice is...”if you haven’t seen them after two hours of daylight give it up for the day”,so with some reluctance I made the short trip to venue number two.Stonar lake, the target Rudd. Getting onto potentially the best swim has about as much chance as Germany failing to qualify from the group stage, so there I was in the “sheds”swim feeling rather happy with myself.
After a biteless hour I adjusted the float and fished on the bottom at about 10ft, within minutes I had a sail away bite and thought I’d hooked a tench or small carp, it was a lovely sight to see a flash of red and gold and a fighter it was too, eventually netted and I had a pb Rudd at 2lb 4oz.
Eight hours later another 46 Rudd, all requiring a net bar three, six bream and a solitary roach. Many of the Rudd going to 1lb 8oz.
Just to round things off in style, the last Rudd was also the second largest at a tad under two pound, the first caught at 10ft deep, this one just 10” below the surface.
I chose to use a rod instead of the usual whip, glad I did, some of these fish would have been lost otherwise,
A rare red letter day after a bad start, just need ENGERLAND to make the day perfect.
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