Couple of good chub from the Bristol Avon 27th June

Tell you what I read a very interesting post on facebook regarding guiding. In a nut shell it was about whether a guide should fish when they are guiding. My view is that they shouldn’t unless the client would like to watch and learn. Demonstration is part of learning and to see how it’s done correctly is a good starting point when establishing a technique. It’s a very interesting subject. There is some advantage in fishing double swims that are quite close but is this really fair?

Anyhow back to the fishing trip today. I only had about 3 hrs to spare and I hadn’t been on the river since Friday night when it had been well up and like mud. Then on Saturday night we had another 20mm of rain which pushed it up a further 6ft. You could see where it had washed the bankside vegetation.

By now (Wednesday) the river was dropping and clearing. You couldn’t quite see the bottom and the gravel runs and weed but it looked clear enough for the chub to feed. I fished the first swim with no response for about 45 minutes. Then I moved to another swim which normally produces a good few barbel and chub. I was using a running ledger rig with a hair rigged pellet of 12mm.

So as you can see not really a looker. Whilst I was taking the video I had already cast out and just after I slipped the chub back the rod belted around again. This time the fish really fought well and I thought that I had hooked a small barbel. However when I saw it under the rod tip I thought nice chub.

So that was it. I had a few other tugs and pulls and landed 2 more but they were not in a great feeding mood. Give it another few days and the river should be back down to normal summer level. However with the rain we have had is anything normal at the moment. The chub though on the Bristol Avon are growing bigger. The largest one that I knew of last year was a 7lbs 14oz specimen.