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Diary of a (mainly) river angler.

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13 September

River Kennet - Nr Thatcham   1830 - 2315   Mild (min of 16ºC), overcast and very, very breezy! Levels on the low side and quite clear.   Blanked! (Well nothing with fins - was totally crayfished out!)   Tried another new swim but was into the Signals almost as soon as the bait hit the water. Activity stopped for an hour at around 10pm so was hopeful that fish had moved in - but nothing doing!  
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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10 August

Trwynhwrddyn Point, Pembrokeshire   1100 - 1300   Overcast/milky sunshine. Tide going out - high tide about an hour before I started.   3 Bass - all small 12-14inches   3 Fish that had me feeling ridiculously pleased with myself! I rarely do any sea fishing and have no tackle. So with a borrowed spinning rod (thanks Paul) and some pike lures (most of which I think I've found over the years!) I looked a bit of a numptie compared to some other anglers with all the gear, who were launching
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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10 March

River Lambourn - Newbury   0615 - 0900   Cold and overcast 2ºC. River clear as ever!   11 Grayling, 7 between 1lb 6oz - 1lb 12oz (most over 1½lb)   Day off work to take Matt to a University open day - so an excuse to sneak a couple of hours on the river. Real catch a couple and move on tactics and really good average size of fish.
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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28 September

River Kennet - Nr Thatcham   1845 - 2300   Clear night, AT 11ºC. River VERY low and clear.   2 Barbel; 4lb 6oz, 3lb 13oz.   A new swim - one with a bit of depth AND flow. No crayfish activity - always a good sign. Both fish on ledgered pellet, after 2100.
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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31 January

River Kennet - Newbury   0800 - 1200   Cold and overcast - easterly breeze. AT & WT both 42ºF. River up at 'normal' winter levels - little colour.   5 Chub - 4lb 6oz, 3lb11oz, 3lb 10oz, 3lb 6oz, 3lb 3oz, 5 Dace, 3 Grayling, 1 Brown Trout (c¾lb) & dozen Gudgeon.   All fish on trotted maggot though started with worm for first ½hour or so to see if any perch were in residence - not a sniff yet strangely had the 4-6 chub first trot when I switched to maggots (and three more soon afte
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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22 November

River Lambourn - Nr Newbury   0845 - 1100   Overcast and chilly 5ºC. River at normal levels - and gin clear as usual!   9 Grayling - all a nice size, best 4 - 1lb 10oz, 1lb 7oz, 1lb 6oz, 1lb 3oz. 3 Brownies - all small.   Nearly didn't go as the weather forecast had been pretty dire - glad I did however - very pleasant couple of hours trotting.
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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21 June

River Kennet (Thatcham)   0730 - 1130   Heavy Showers - Breezy   2 Barbel (7lb 3oz & 6lb), 2 Chub (4lb 10oz, 2lb 5oz), 1 Brown Trout (1lb 11oz), 6 Dace   Trotting session - all fish on double red maggot - from fast water - barbel were QUITE a struggle. River looked in good nick - more ranunculus than last year - some colour and good flow.
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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22/23 June

Knotts Lake   1730 - 0600 Very heavy showers - then dry.   9 Tench (best two 5lb & 4lb 14oz - all the others 3lb+ fish)   Most fish on Halibut pellet out by the island - couple of fish on float fished meat in the margins - also lost a couple of carp on float tackle.   Paul managed 5 tench - best a fish of 5lb 10oz and had around a dozen carp between 7-11lb all on pellet - couldn't get past them to the tench!  
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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23 June

Warwicks Water   0730 - 1030   Dry and overcast   7 Crucians (all over 1lb - best 1lb 10oz), 3 carp (best 3½lb) 1½doz roach and a few perch.   Fished meat or 4mm pellet on the lift method - most fish to meat.
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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28 June

River Kennet (Newbury)   1900 - 2300   Dry, windy and overcast.   2 Barbel (8lb6oz,<4lb) 2 chub (both <3lb)   River up, some colour and quite a bit of debris (mainly weed) coming down. 1 chub 1st cast then 3 fish in the last ½hour. All fish on 14mm Halibuts.
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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29 June

River Kennet (Woolhampton)   2000 - 2300   Dry, Clear and breezy.   1 Common Carp (9lb6oz), 2 Chub (both <3lb), 1 Bream (<3lb)   Halibut pellet - as usual! Carp last cast!
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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1 July

Warwicks Water   0800 - 1200   Rain, drizzle and more rain!   10 crucians (All 1lb+, best 1lb 11oz) 6 roach.   All caught on float fished meat - lift method.
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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6 July

River Kennet (nr Thatcham)   2000 - 0000 Clear with a stiff breeze.   4 Barbel (9lb 7oz, 8lb 15oz, 6lb 2oz, 3½lb) 1 Chub 3lb 3oz   All on pellet (of course!) Chub caught in the 1st 20 mins of arriving - all the barbel caught in 1 manic hour between 10-11.00pm.   River down 2-3inches on last week.
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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11 July

River Kennet (nr Newbury)   2000 - 2300   Clear.   2 Barbel (6lb 4oz & 5lb 14oz), 1 Bream (3¾lb) 1 dace (9oz)   New swim - all fish to 14mm pellet - including the rather overambitious dace. Barbel between 22-2300 - as per usual!   River at normal levels - down about 3-4 inches on 10 days ago - carrying its usual summer colour (boat traffic has a lot to answer for) - and some - just enough to be annoying - debris.      
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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13 July

Pumphouse Lake, Yateley   1800 - 2300   Cloudy then rain.   Blanked!   Friday the 13th - pah! 10 rod hours without a touch. Pellet on the lead on 1 rod, float fishing the margins with a variety of baits on the other - couldn't even buy a bite with maggot or worm. Packed up early when the wind picked up and it started to rain - heavily! - I hadn't brought my shelter - the weather forecast having predicted a dry warm night! Glad the rain made my mind up for me - Paul fished on 'til 1st lig
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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24 July

River Kennet (nr Newbury)   1900 - 2300   Sunny and breezy   2 Barbel (7lb 15oz, 4½lb), 1 chub (3lb), 1 dace (!)   River up (as you'd expect - but dropping) Quite coloured but no small debris (just the odd small tree!!!). Larger barbel 1st cast. Loads of small rustles and knocks which weren't crayfish (no marks on the pellet) - but which I'm pretty sure were dace - as I managed to catch one on 14mm pellet for the 2nd trip running - this one was much smaller too!
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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26 July

Summer Pit (Yateley)   2000 - 0000   Clear and breezy after heavy afternoon rain.   5 Tench (3½ - 4¾lb), 1 Bream 4lb 10oz, 1 rudd   That's better - nearly didn't go as I want to be there early but was held up getting home. And I forgot to take any bread. All fish on float fished meat - lift method. Lake is around 18 inches deeper than last year. No sign of any crucians. Lovely evening - had the place to myself.
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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13 August

River Kennet (Nr Thatcham)   1915 - 2315 Scattered cloud, 18ºC, one light shower.   4 Barbel (9lb10z, 6lb 5oz, 5lb 6oz, 4lb). 1 Chub (2lb)   First trip since holidaying in Scotland (Caught a few Pollack spinning from the rocks nr Oban). 3 fish (Chub, 6 & 4lber) in the first ½hour then lots of knocks/rattles which didn't develop (not crayfish) - presumably small chub/dace/gudgeon??? Final two fish at 2215 and 2250 - saved the biggest for last. 9lber had a large (size of 10p) wart on he
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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17 August

Pumphouse Lake (Yateley)   1930-0000   Warm (17ºC) and overcast - started raining as I packed up...   3 Bream (6lb 2oz, 5lb 9oz, 4lb 13oz)   Fished 2 rods - pellet on the lead produced not a touch. Started float fishing maggots in the margins - and had no bites for the 1st hour or so - sense of deja vu! Switched to float fished meat - and all the fish fell to this - though rather wished they were tench! Final fish was right on the stroke of midnight when I'd packed most of the gear away
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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20 August

River Kennet - Thatcham   1930-2330   Clearing skies - cooler 12ºC.   2 Barbel (4¼lb, 6lb 13oz)   Both fish caught either side of 2100. Levels same as 7 days ago - however an annoying amount of debris - ranunculus and water cress coming down made fishing difficult at times - maybe some weed cutting's been going on upstream? Much less activity than last week - no other bites/knocks/rattles etc other than the 2 which resulted in fish. Chilly in a NE breeze too!
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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25 August

Warwicks Water   0600 - 1200   Warm and sunny (at last)   15 Crucians (all between 1¼ - 1¾lb), 7 Carp (2¾ - 6lb), a dozen roach/rudd.   Fished meat, 4mm pellet and bread - all crucians on meat. Lift method - a couple of the carp on freelined bread.No bites for the first hour then the swim was really fizzing. Most fish caught before 1030 - final hour and a half switched to floating crust for the carp.
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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27 August

Summer Pit   1930 - 0000   Overcast and calm17ºC>13ºC   3 Tench ( 5lb 9oz, 4lb 3oz X 2 (same fish???)), 2 Crucians (2lb 2oz, 1lb 13oz) 1 Rudd.   Lake looked lifeless - no bubbles or rolling fish - can't judge a book by it's cover! Biggest tench first cast on meat - one other tench on meat. Other tench plus the 2 crucians on bread. Also fished 4mm pellet for a short while - though this was just an invitation to catch the tiny rudd! All fish caught with the Lift Method.
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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31 August/1 September

Knotts Lake   1900 - 0800   Warm and overcast - some breeze - no dew.   2 Tench (6lb 4oz, 5lb 7oz), 9 rudd, 2 doz perch - biggest 1½lb   A VERY quiet night rescued by two nice tench either side of midnight. Biggest on pellet out by the island, 5lber on float fished meat in the near margins. Rudd and perch on maggot - some quite nice sized ones too. Lost a substantial perch (+2lber) at the net when the hook pulled - it lay motionless on the surface for second - just out of net range - bug
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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7/8 September

Horseshoe Lake, Yateley   1930 - 0630   Clear night - misty morning, Temp 22ºC ar dusk---->12ºC at Dawn   1 bream 4¼lb   Well that was a good nights sleep!!! Had only bite (and fish) within 1½hrs of arriving (on ledgered pellet) and hardly another touch all night. No further bites on pellet. Float fished meat, black pudding, broken up Meteor boilies in the margins. A few half-hearted bites on BP and the boilies but nothing hittable.
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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10 September

River Kennet - Nr Thatcham   1845 - 2315   Clear and breezey. 18ºC----->9ºC. No moon - really dark night!   3 Barbel; 5lb 0oz, 2 sub 4lbers.   River down 3 inches on last visit, still carrying some debris - mainly ranunculus - which frustratingly kept catching the line. 2 smaller fish around 2100, 5lber last cast.
Chris Plumb

Chris Plumb

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