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31 October

Chris Plumb

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River Kennet - Nr Thatcham

 

1800 - 2330

 

Mild, overcast with a soft southerly breeze - really lovely night to be out. River low and carrying quite a bit of leaf litter as you'd expect. WT a balmy 56ºF.

 

1 Barbel; 9lb 0oz. 1 Carp; 15lb 9oz!!

 

Trick or Treat? Never been so disappointed to get such a lovely looking carp - as for nay on 10 mins I thought I was connected to the mother of all barbel!!! This is my 30th season barbel fishing this stretch of river and in all that time I've never caught a carp - until last night! Barbel caught at 2015 - carp 1½hrs later.

 

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Rusty

It is a great looking fish, sometimes you get an inkling that a carp might have grabbed the bait. Did you suspect?

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Chris Plumb

Aye, it's a cracking looking fish - lovely colouration. And no, didn't cross my mind that it wasn't a barbel!! :D Fight was quite ponderous just like a large barbel - had real difficulty getting it off the bottom - bit of a surprise when I eventually got it to the surface and picked it out in my headlamp!

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