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River Kennet - Hambridge

0700 - 1300

Warm, overcast and quite muggy - though that might just have been all the exertion to hack my way through the undergrowth to my swim - clearly no one has been here since MY last visit back in July! AT 10º - 20ºC. River low with a little colour - typical for this time of year.

7 Chub; 3 over 2lb - the best 2lb 12oz with another an ounce or so under. Other 3 were around the pound mark ± a few ounces. 1 Barbel (!!) 👍 unweighed but probably just shy of a lb. 1 Pike; 4lb 8oz. 20 Dace and 8 Roach - nothing of any size. 1 Bleak, 3 Brownies: one of 1¼lb the other 2 around half that (and possibly the same fish!)

Well that WAS fun! And for the 2nd weekend in a row I get a Kennet barbel trotting - though this one may have been recently stocked judging by the size of it. In years gone by barbel of this size were quite common here - so much so that I used to call it the Barbel Nursery!

I had planned to make this a 2 venue morning - but as it turned out it was a 2 swim session - giving each an hour in rotation. Started off in my usual hotspot and had what would prove to be my biggest chub of the morning within the first 10 mins of fishing after the usual 'bait and wait' tactics at the start of the session. However most of the fish then came from my second swim upstream - one that often only produces in low water conditions (it's usually too pacey). This produced 5 of the chub and the barbel - though the pike was caught back in my initial swim on a plug after it had chased in a couple of the dace.

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Bayleaf the Gardener

Wow, what a fab morning - and I see the pike came with its own Bag for Life, too! I presume your swims are only reachable in waders. I can only get to the last two swims before the bridge in my land-locked wellies!

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Chris Plumb

No - today's hotspot was fished from dry land - though the first swim is now impossible without waders due to a fallen willow bough - will be bringing a saw when I next come here!

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Bayleaf the Gardener
6 hours ago, Bayleaf the Gardener said:

Hmm, Curious. A proper stalker might follow your tracks through the undergrowth to see where you go...

Oh dear! Back from an evening at the pub and seen that last comment sounds veeery creepy - Apologies!

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The Flying Tench
On 9/5/2021 at 8:04 AM, Chris Plumb said:

🤔 It won't be hard to find - tis the swim in my cover pic!

Hi Chris, What volume of maggots do you get through on a morning such as this?

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Chris Plumb

Good question - I took 2 pints - but had quite a bit left so probably used 1¼-1½pints. I feed both swims quite liberally to start - had problems with bleak back in July - but they weren't around in quite the same numbers this time around....

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