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Thames - 23-25/07/2010


Nicholas S

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A weekend that I had been looking forward to for a while. I was fishing the Thames with Alan and his Dad Trevor from their punt. I was excitied for a number of reasons, firstly because I had heard lots of good stories about how well the river was fishing, second because it was my first Coarse fishing session of the season and lastly because we were boat fishing which I absolutely love.

 

It turned out to be a terrific weekend. Left work early on Friday so that i could get home in time to fish the evening and night with Trevor. Despite Trevor’s claims that he had put me in the best spot it seemed the opposite was true as he seemed to be getting all the bites! Still, it didn’t bother me and I enjoyed seeing some lovely Barbel caught, largest probably around 6lb (all to Trevor – really annoyingly I lost two good Barbel).

 

The following day was spent trotting from the boat and mainly catching Bleak! Despite doing everything we could to try to get through the hoards of them it just wasn’t working. It didn’t really matter however, trotting with a pin off the punt is so much fun and a special experience every single time, even if you can only catch Bleak! Spent that evening in the same spot after Barbel again and this time it seemed like I was the one getting all the bites! Frustratingly I lost another good Barbel but eventually managed to catch my first one of the season, a lovely small fish probably not more than 2lb. We both caught a few nice Chub but Trevor had the last laugh landing a gorgeous Barbel just shy of being a double. It was a terrific evenings fishing, exhilarating stuff holding the rod and waiting for the tip to wrench round!

 

The final day was spent trotting maggots for the small fish and then trotting the silver down as a live bait hoping for a nice Perch. The tactic worked surprisingly well but mainly with the smaller Perch. I did manage to catch two lovely Pike, the largest around 7.5lb which fought really well on relatively light tackle.

 

A great weekend and looking forward to the next time.

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