20 November (Part 2)
Entry posted by Chris Plumb in Coarse Fishing
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River Kennet - Speen Moors
0900 - 1245
Mild and overcast - with the earlier drizzle thankfully stopped. AT 11ºC. River low for late Nov - but then we've hardly had a drop of rain for the last 3 weeks!
2 Chub: 2lb 15oz, 1lb 8oz. 1 Perch 1lb 7oz. 5 Roach. 1 Dace. 1 Brownie 1½lb- sigh!
I hate trout! Having tip-toe'd into the top of a favoured chub swim and trickled maggot in for 10 minutes I managed to pull off the perfect cast - and had the float running down just the line I wanted - and sure enough at just the spot I expected - it buried into the depths. Alas, my strike didn't meet the stubborn resistance of a big chub but an explosion on the surface as a flippin trout went bonkers. I rarely get more than one chance in this swim and so it proved. I tried a couple of other less reliable spots without so much as a sucked maggot and after an hour and a half was abandoning Parliament Draft, chubless for the first time this season. So to spare my blushes it was back to the weirpool - reliable as ever and if somewhat on the slow and steady side, it did at least manage to offer up a half decent chub - literally last cast!
Edited by Chris Plumb
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