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Back to work tomorrow, but I don't care


Rusty

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River Kennet, Newbury, Tuesday 16th November 2010

 

Again the day started foggy so I was in no rush to get anywhere and there was plenty of time for a couple of bacon butties before lift off. Wherever I fish on the NAA or TAA tickets my journey starts on the same road so I can afford to be undecided about the venue until I get to Newbury. I suppose that’s a ‘benefit’ of my favoured method, I can fish for chub, barbel, dace or grayling and the only thing that changes is the hooklength and hook size (sometimes bait but red maggots will usually do the job). The Harrison rod is so versatile is stays set up with ‘pin attached in the shed, all I have to do is decide is whether I’ll be wading grab the gear and go.

 

Today it was either grayling or chub, I stopped at the grayling venue first and had a good look around. It looked very low and whilst a few of the deeper glides were ok I wasn’t that enthusiastic. Further down it was the same story, the EA made a lot of changes to this river last season and whilst the work looks good the changes need to mature over a couple of seasons for the character of the river to return. A bit more water in it would help too.

 

So off to the next venue targeting chub with a remote possibility of a barbel. Very remote as it turned out because I didn’t catch one but I did catch grayling, some good dace, some good gudgeon and a pretty hefty chub of 4lb 4oz;

 

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Larger chub always scare the pants off me when they’re first hooked trotting. It seems like it takes a second or two before they realise what’s going on, they then wake up and steamroller off to the nearest snag. It’s quite short lived, they appear to tire quickly but during that initial heave-ho when you can really feel the big thumps I just hang on and let the rod soak it up if there are snags about.

 

A couple more chub followed, this one was 2lb 8oz;

 

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And this one 2lb 4oz, the hook hold looked a bit tenuous, I was lucky to land it;

 

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Maths ‘O’ Level kicked in at this point and I realised that the fish were getting smaller so I called it a day after a brilliant short session. My two days off have been great fun, shame it's over but if holidays don't end they can never start.

 

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