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Yesterday, after an hour of intense stalking through nettles, cow pats, and anglers bivvies, roving reporter, Stick Leback, captured the stunning image below, showing Chris Plumb putting his usual standard of intense effort into fishing :bleh:

 

 

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Like a coiled spring!

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Paul I take it he was fishing with buzzers ...should have given it the old pull the line through fast and watch Chris explode into action

We are not putting it back it is a lump now put that curry down and go and get the scales

have I told you abouit the cruise control on my Volvo ,,,,,,,bla bla bla Barder rod has it come yet?? and don`t even start me on Chris Lythe :bleh::icecream:

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I had a three sessions in thre days on four different rivers in Berkshire and Hampshire borders.

 

Day 1. 16th, Whitewater and Blackwater. 0500-1300.

Was a bit rusty. Started off legering this very small intimate river after hacking through head high nettles to even get near the river. It's where I fished on the 12th March and landed a 3 and 4lb chub on bread. Nothing doing on free lined and legered bread or worm apart from swim wrecking trout. I trotted maggot and found a shoal of dace in a 'usual swim' where you are almost guaranteed a dace. Had five before the swim went dead up to about 6oz. Lost one much bigger. Didn't count the 6 trout as it's a trout river most of the time. Free lined bread in the Blackwater but to no avail.

 

Day 2. 17th. Kennet. 0500-1300.

All out on the trotting (but brought the avon rid just in case). Trotted maggot. Trotted it some more. And yet more. Swim 4 (where I had a 4lb chub on 2011 opening day in 2011 with my first cast) the float went down and a 5lb 4oz chub came out. Nearly pulled my arm off. For a summer chub it was in great condition. Changed swims. Trotted some more. Still nothing, constant feeding, could see some barbel doing nothing under the opposite bank but couldn't cast to them from here.. After 2 trout and a grayling that took a lot of reviving as it was getting warm, I got another chub that pulled and pulled to get up a side stream but I held on with my new Asaki and in the end I won. 4lb 7oz. After that two more swims - nothing but trout, bleak and 3 gudgeon.

 

Day 3. 18th. Blackwater and Loddon (confluence of both). 1100-2100. Absolute grueller. Determined to get a barbel. Fished 6 different swims but concentrated in a swim in the copse under a big old oak in the shade. Legered for barbel. Roved up and down freelining slug, snail and bread for chub. Nothing. Legered for chub, flicked crusts beneath trees, and around onion beds. Nothing. Almost giving up I decided to hold out for barbel and baited up with hemp and a few halibut pellets and sat it out. Nothing, not a bite. Almost at the end, walking back to the car, remembered a long glide. Got the trotting gear out and decided to use the last pint or so of maggots. Feeding heavily, adjusting the depth a few times to skim over the cabbages, and just about ready to give up when the float went down as a guy walked past on the opposite bank and I was in. Like the Kennet fish It gave me a right battle and the guy not he opposite bank watched me land it. He asked, it a 5? 'Yes, it's a 5' I replied, when I saw it in the net. I was beaming. Weighed it, and it went 5lb 12oz! Great! One bite in a long day and it's nearly a 6.

 

Made up with that, but the three days were not what I had in mind! I will report more fully with photos later this week. Unfortunately, the sodding camera battery died for todays big chub, but I have some pictures of the others in photobucket.

 

Don't know when I will next get on the rivers but the last three days have been, frustrating, exciting, amazing, and surprising. The main thing being that I have carried on where I left off last season, in that I can't catch barbel, and don't seem to catch many chub below 3 lb.

 

Mike

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"I want some repairs done to my cooker as it has backfired and burnt my knob off."

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Good write up Mike and not being able to catch Chub under 3 ain`t so bad a problem .

We are not putting it back it is a lump now put that curry down and go and get the scales

have I told you abouit the cruise control on my Volvo ,,,,,,,bla bla bla Barder rod has it come yet?? and don`t even start me on Chris Lythe :bleh::icecream:

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Good write up Mike and not being able to catch Chub under 3 ain`t so bad a problem .

 

 

Same as JV says, I wouldn't complain about catching chub over 3lb lol. Some nice fish there Mike...job's a good 'un :).

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Same as JV says, I wouldn't complain about catching chub over 3lb lol. Some nice fish there Mike...job's a good 'un :).

I'm not sure I did complain, just said it like it is. Angling is frustrating and, at times gruelling and annoying. It's what makes us go again time after time. If we caught loads and had a great time each time, we would seek another challenge.

 

Try as I might, I can only catch chub, and only on trotted maggot and bread. I think it is probably the swims I fish - I always go for the creases and overhanging trees, onions etc. I managed 14 sessions last year and my biggest chub was 5lb. In fact, checking the records, the only other fish I caught were dace trout, grayling, pike and perch (and a few bits of bleak and stuff).

 

Not complaining, just saying like it is! I will post photos tomorrow.

 

 

Mike

"I want some repairs done to my cooker as it has backfired and burnt my knob off."

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Buzzers? Mr Plumb? I reckon he's got the line tied round his big toe!

Buzzers? Is one accusing Mr Plumb of being a fluff chucker? He won't like that!

 

Mike

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I managed to get out to do a bit of dropshotting on the upper Thames this evening. The river was low and overgrown, with not many swims fishable. I tried a few spots before heading up to one of my bankers, a (relatively) deep pool below a bridge.

 

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This produced my first fish of the season (pictured) followed by one a bit bigger.

 

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I had another tiddler and then moved to another favourite swim. A confluence with a side stream on a bend, again with a bit of depth.

 

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This produced a couple of better fish like this one:

 

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There was a shoal of decent chub lurking, but they disappeared like mist whenever I put a lure near them. I resolved to try a soft plastic lobworm. No chub, but a couple more perch.

 

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A modest catch of small perch, but a pleasant way to open the season.

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