River Kennet - Thatcham.

0900 - 1100

Bright with milky sunshine. AT upto 13ºC when I left - a lovely early spring morning.

1 Chub; 2lb 13oz. 1 dace. 1 Brownie 1¼lb.

So having been crayfished off the canal, plan B was to see if I could snaffle a March barbel on the pin. (Having first picked up some maggot from Tony's for Monday - as ever he wasn't a happy bunny - this time coz I proffered a 20 and he had no change! ). Anyways, Plan B got scuppered almost before it got started. 1st trot through - having fed the swim for over ½hour before fishing - resulted in the brownie - which went absolutely mental - jumping all over the place. So I never got to find out if my baiting had got anything else feeding in my 'banker' barbel swim!! I dropped down a swim a had the dace followed by the chub - hooked as I was reading a text message from the wife asking me to pick up one of the lads from training - bringing an earlier than anticipated end to my day's angling.....