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Middle Kennet Estate

 

0900 - 1730

 

Cool, Overcast and Dry. AT around 5-6ºC all day. River at normal levels and carrying a tinge of colour - all in all neigh on perfect winter conditions!

 

10 Chub. 8 over a pound, biggest 3; 4lb 5oz, 3lb 14oz, 3lb 5oz. 13 Dace. Most a good size, best 4; 14oz, 11oz 10ozX2. 1 Grayling - 1lb 7oz. 8 Brownies to 2½lb.

 

Typical day spent wondering the banks with rods in hand. Spent all morning searching out the dace and had caught just 4 by lunch time though it did include both 10oz & the 11oz fish. Post lunch the focus switched briefly to chub and I had ½doz in quick succession - half on maggot and half on corn. Then after a quick visit to poach Rusty's swim - forlornly as it turned out for a perch - it was a long trek down to a swim rumoured to hold really special chub - unfortunately when I got there I realised I'd left my sweetcorn at the top of the fishery. This meant changing up my dace tackle to something a bit stronger and fishing double white maggot. A small chub resulted quickly followed by the grayling - small compensation for the MUCH bigger lady I lost in the morning due to my own stupidity. I hooked what I firmly believed to be a brownie - and played it really hard - hoping it would get off. The plan worked in the same instance I realised I was connected to a really substantial grayling not a troot! Last hour was spent in a known dace swim - resulting in my last fish of the day being a rather special dace of 14oz. biggrin.gif

 

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3 of Paul's fish from Sunday....

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Rusty

A great finale Chris and the middle was pretty impressive too. If it’s any consolation I’ve made the same mistake in a trout/dace scenario at Rainsford, wound hard, hoped it got off and waved bye bye as the dace did get off.

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Chris Plumb

Hi Rusty - was my biggest dace from here for over 6 years - Jan 05 when Paul and I had a real Red Letter day catching simply dozens of big fish - it got to the point that we were only weighing those that looked to be over 12oz! My biggest 3 that day went 14,15 & 16oz. Counting up at the end of the day we'd had 95 dace between us with hardly a fish under 8oz - AWESOME.

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Paulg

I've sent you some pics.......no scenic ones though, it was a bit of a dull grey day, excellent for fishing, but not conducive to pretty pictures. But.....my Dace pic is far better quality than yours, even if the fish itself is 4oz lighter :)

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