14 March
Entry posted by Chris Plumb
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0645 - 1015 Speen Moors
1115 - 1315 River Kennet, Newbury
1345 - 1615 River Lambourn, Newbury
Foggy start, then bright sunshine and quite warm - shirtsleeves weather! River still very high. Lambourn particularly so.
Another '3 venue day'!
Speen. 2 Chub; 2lb 10oz, 1lb 7oz & 3 Dace. Had planned to spend all day here but high water meant I couldn't actually get to ANY of the swims I wanted to fish. Started in a known perch slack AKA 'Rusty's Corner' which is now full of branches, so 30 mins and 3 hooklengths later I was trying to make my way down stream to a chub hot spot - got ¾ of the way there when I had to turn back at a breach in the bank that was still a couple of foot deep. APFA swim was also under water (well the bank was of course) so I had to make do with an hour or so in the ever reliable small weir and having taken a couple of trout out yesterday (I popped them back upstream for the fluff chuckers) at least fish without an adipose got a lookin!
Kennet. 27 Dace & 2 Grayling. Bite of lunch in the sun and a stack of dace on the float - strangely almost ALL of them were males only 3 weren't sandpapery and I caught no pigeon chested females.
Lambourn. 19 Grayling; 6 over a pound best 2; 1lb 9oz & 1lb 5oz. 4 Trout parr. Usual catch a couple and move on tactics.
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