6.12.23 - River Ely, St Fagans
Entry posted by Bayleaf the Gardener in River Ely, St Fagans
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My third trip to the Ely. It's my nearest coarse river and, with a stop at Bridgend to pick up maggots, took me about 50 minutes. That's too long, but I'm missing my chub fishing. We've had a clear and chilly last week that's warmed in the last couple of days with some rain and cloud giving a pleasant lift in temperature that I think makes it ripe for action.
It's a lovely looking river, much like the Kennet in places with glides and overhangs - very chubby looking. Having suffered two blanks here so far, I've sharpened my technique watching every long-trotting video I could find on You Tube. So I'm pretty confident I have validated my choice of swim, loose feed strategy, depth, weight of float (4ssg) drawn beautifully off the centrepin, shot distribution and hook size to be pretty confident that if there's fishy action to be had, I should see some of it.
Nope.
On my fifth swim I finally get an apologetic bite and a sucked maggot, and that's the peak of the action.
That's it. We're through. The Ely can poke it. That's probably around 9 hours of fishing here for a mouthed maggot and a dropped 2oz (probably) roach.
Those readers who curse the presence of trout in their waters read ruefully. What I wouldn't have given for an angry-faced brownie.
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