River Lambourn - Newbury

0930 - 1315

Cold, overcast and quite breezy. AT hovering around 0ºC all day. Just warm enough not to suffer iced up rod rings. River low and clear.

17 Grayling. 9 over 1lb (!), best 3, 2lb oz (!!!), 1lb 13oz & 1lb 10oz.

Cracking morning's trotting - until I got married I always went fishning on Christmas Eve! Catch a couple and move on tactics. Fish were hungry - in a couple of swims they were boiling on the surface when the freebies went in - soon got spooked when one of their brethen were hooked though! 1st 2lber from the Lambourn since Dec 2001, also lost something which was MUCH bigger and though was suspiciously barble-ly was probably a troot.

Christmas Grayling