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20 August
Entry posted by Chris Plumb
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River Kennet - Nr Thatcham
1815 - 2315
Cool and clear - temp down to 6ºC when I got back to the car!
1 Barbel 8lb 2oz, 1 Chub 2lb.
At last a barbel and a decent one too!
Quite a few rattles during the first couple of hours - which I'm kicking myself for not hitting - thought they
were crayfish - but when I did eventually decide to hit one it turned into a 2lb chub!
Rattles stopped when it got dark and at around 2215 had a very strange juddery kind of a bite which
when I struck connected with nothing - however on winding in realised I WAS connected to a fish
- it had taken the bait and shot upstream - was right under my rod tip by the time I tightened in to it- when it then proceeded to go absolutely mental. Can't remember ever having such a hard fight off a barbel, which when I eventually got it in the net went 8lb 2oz. Un-suprisingly it took a while to recover.
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