Friday November 23rd time for a change, perching.
My Mate Andy has been promising a trip to a commercial fishery where there have been some large perch coming out for a good few years. He arrived a little earlier than me and bless saved the best swim for me. Well he said it was the best swim! Our bait was to be prawns supplemented with a sprinkle of maggots →
A few days on the Avon and Stour and two 6lb chub.
Having just returned from the Itchen on Thursday evening it was Friday lunchtime by the time I set off to fish the D.Stour and the H.Avon. The method was going to be trotting with maggots being the bait again. The weather promised to be mild for the Friday and Saturday, but with a hard frost on Sunday morning. I arrived to →
River Itchen and loads of grayling, big roach and a salmon.
I've been looking forward to this trip for sometime. I had arranged for 5 other anglers if that what you want to call them to fish the Lower Itchen Fishery. I have fished with these guy's for more years than I like to say, Colin, Alan, Steve, John and Tony thanks for very special two days. As you do for this occasion →
Hampshire Avon for a few hours and a 6lb 6oz chub
With all the rain we had on Sunday I was apprehensive about the state of H. Avon. I was due to be spending a 4 day period on holiday near Ringwood. On my way down I peered over the bridge at Woodgreen and saw the river dirty and high. Higher than I had seen it for a while. As I drove →
4th November Chew Valley lake and the last attempt at the pike this year!
Driving towards Chew at 7.30am in the morning the rain was pouring down as it had been for the last few hours. There was flooding on roads where I hadn't seen it before, with the land saturated with water then the extra amounts just poured from fields and lanes. I just made it through a couple of large floods on the →
First a couple of short sessions during the begining of Nov
Firstly the Bristol Avon colour cleared and it was possible to float fish for a change. Trotting is s great method. You need to keep the feed going in. Feed is normally red maggots. I tried this on several swims and caught in all of them. No large chub but to just under 4lbs, great fun on 3lb hooklink and size 18 hook. →