August 14th, last nights fishing and sharks

Been fairly busy over the last week or so and angling has taken a bit of a back seat. However yesterday late afternoon I decided to venture out onto the Bristol Avon in search of chub. I have found a swim that contains some better size chub probably close to 6lbs. I arrived in the pouring rain to find that the swim was free. I fed one part of the swim and could see the chub coming out and feeding on the pellets. Then the river started to colour up from the rain we had earlier in the day so my favourite method of sight fishing literally faded away.

Nothing came along so I decided to rest the swim for a while. I spotted Paddy in the distance and decided to have a natter to him as I hadn’t seen him since June. We spent a good 30 minutes talking and catching up on what has been happening on the Bristol Avon.

Then I bumped into the bailiff whom I hadn’t met for quite some time. Then I had several phone calls and business to take care of so it took ages before I recast.

It didn’t take long before the tip whipped around and I landed a nice chub of just over 4lbs. From the markings on it was one I had caught last week.

So all in all I probably fished for about 1 hr, however it was good to be back out again.

My mate Andy Cowley has been out shark fishing last week after many cancellations. Well he had a super result. This is what he said.

Had an amazing shark trip with 33 blues in the boat, about 8 of 100lbs and over, although none measured this time and all estimated by the skipper. I had 40, 80, 80, 90, 100, 140lbs -ish. The 140 was the biggest of the day and a new PB for me.
Stunning weather all day and flat calm, I think even you would have been ok! Saw several sunfish including one, probably 80lbs or so, right next to the boat. I should have some fantastic video of it so hopefully can pull some good stills off it. Also shark around the boat, chasing baits, dolphins etc so looking forward to seeing it later.

Sun fish

Great white..... not quite

Nice shark

A great photo

So he had an amazing day out. I wish I had sea legs!!!!!!

I’m a lucky birthday boy today, so no fishing for me.

My next session on Thursday is guiding on the Wye. It’s low and clear at the moment so I’m hoping for a little rain to colour the river up a little.