16.10.23 - River Ely, St Fagans
Entry posted by Bayleaf the Gardener in River Ely, St Fagans
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My first trip to a Welsh river, some 40 minutes from home which is far further than I'd normally travel, but I'd been getting severe withdrawal symptoms.
And a nice river it looked too, perhaps most like Brimpton from my Berkshire Kennet days, with few accessible swims but lovely chubby overhangs.
Total disaster. Having found the screw-piece had somehow been lost from the end of my landing net handle, I snapped off the last 4 inches of my (once) 15 ft Cadence rod. On my first trot through I snagged and lost float and all terminal tackle. I shallowed up a little, but still lost 3 more hooks. There was a reasonable flow, but not enough to drag even a 2SSG float from my centrepin, so I never felt I was presenting well. No bites.
The only other swims available amongst the summer bankside growth were two narrower swims, to which I bombed cheese having first having the big black slug i found in the grass ignored.
No bites.
I'd disturbed a ruddy great cormorant from the water when I arrived, and scared it (or it's mate) into the sky when it floated down into my swim later.
Altogether a very disheartening 3 hours. For some reason I rarely do well trotting despite pre-feeding my swims, holding the float back and varying the depth so it was no major surprise. The cormorant presence was enough to make me think the stock might be low and, in any case, wary to come out of their hides in daylight for fear of cormorants. That or I'm just a bit sh*t at river fishing.
Edited by Bayleaf the Gardener
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