What a wet and windy day that was (did ok though)
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River Kennet, Sunday 13th February 2011
This was one of those occasions where anticipation of the day out overrides any common sense that the weather forecast might be trying to hammer into your head. You look at the forecast and try to imagine what ‘light rain’ means, then you look at the wind strength and conclude that you can deal with that provided the light rain isn’t happening at the same time. But of course it always does happen at the same time.
It would, however, have taken gale force winds to stop me fishing this venue so with waterproofs donned off I drove (and then trudged) to a chub swim, another one of those ‘reliable’ swims where I’ve never caught the resident species
It was a bit exposed here, it wouldn’t have taken long for the rain and wind to get through so I decided just one chub would do it and then I’d implement plan B. That being to base myself at a plush fishing hut a short drive away, set up the catering kit and then fish sections fairly close to the hut. When I’d had enough of the weather I’d leave my gear at the swim and then wander back to the hut for a cup of tea, I was the only one on this upper section of the fishery and there was little chance of anything being stolen.
After a couple of pretty decent trout and an hour of wishing the wind would die down I did finally bag a chublet and that was enough for me. The trout got a photo (he was first caught) but no time for Mr Chublet, once he was released I was back to the car and off to the hut;
Plan B worked very well, I could walk to this Mr Crabtree swim in about 5 minutes so that’s what I did for the rest of the day, fish, back to the hut, drink tea, cook sausage rolls, back to the swim;
This was a peach of a swim, a run off from another carrier creating a lovely little pool of eddies and slacks, the fish holding areas were so obvious even I could spot them. This section was a bit more sheltered so whilst the wind and rain were still present they were at my back and it was a simple job to flick the float out into the slack water;
Red maggots produced a few small perch only one of which needed the net. A switch to lobs instantly produced bigger football shaped perch all three of which needed the net, a couple weighing 2lb 8oz and a rather war torn specimen of exactly 2lb. Having had a good look at the photos I now suspect that the first two are the same fish so only two decent sized perch really. What do you think?
The 'second' 2lb 8oz’er;
The 2lb’er;
A few chublets made an appearance from the same swim which was nice;
The weather got the better of me at about 3:00pm, I’d had enough by then but was so glad that I’d decided to go. When I’ve fished here previously I’ve been keen to explore and see as much of the fishery as I can, today was never going to be a roaming day but as it turned out it was none the worse for it.
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