River Kennet - Nr Thatcham

1900 - 2300

Warm, balmy evening - in shirtsleeves all session - temp still at 19ºC when I got back to the car. Lovely evening to be out!

3 Chub; 4lb 10oz, 4lb 2oz, 3lb 4oz. 1 dace,

Another evening NOT catching barbel - but at least some half decent chub kept me occupied for the first couple of hours. Biggest chub and the dace on trotted maggot in the first hour. Other 2 chub on ledgered snailz boilie (an impulse buy when I was in Hinders back in May!! ) in the second hour. All fish caught by 9.00pm. Very gratified to see the margins absolutely black with fry - thousands and thousands of fish - hope they're not all minnows!