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Thames weirpool 30.6.14

The Flying Tench

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7pm to 9.15pm

 

Lovely weir pool, with the main flow the far side and inaccessible to me, but a nice back-flow under the rod tip (9-11ft of water). Beautiful with the church bells sounding across the fields. I had intended to take worms and maggots, but stupidly didn't leave enough time to get to the fishing shop, so went with bread and lures, the latter with perch in mind.

 

No immediate response to the lures, but then I saw a suspicious splash under a bush, so I tried jigging a gold plastic worm. Bang, something was on, but only for a couple of seconds. I thought 'Could he be unwise enough to hit the same lure twice?' He was! Esox fought incredibly hard, and I probably didn't bully him in quickly enough, cos he seemed exhausted when I netted him. So I held him in the water in the landing net for 5 minutes, and he swam off OK. 7.5 pounds - nothing to a real pike angler, but I was very pleased.

 

Then I trotted bread and just had one hard fighting skimmer of about a pound. A contradiction in terms I hear you say! Probably because I'm fairly sure he was a roach-bream hybrid. Someone told me they fight OK.

 

A pleasing first trip to the weirpool.

 

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Rusty

Nothing like a good Thames weirpool John, anything can be in them. Same syndicate I'm guessing? I've made enquiries about alternative parking and if that comes off I'll join.

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The Flying Tench

Yes, same syndicate. A lovely setting, and good to have acccess to the back-flow, but it would be better still if we could get closer to the faster water where I guess some of the fish hang out.

 

Certainly the access is a bit of a pain, though. I had to open and shut 6 gates each way yesterday, and it's surprising how long it takes. It took 20 minutes to drive from the weirpool to the public road.

 

But it will be great if you join cos we can compare notes!

 

J

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