Gave the 'pins a rest today
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Speen Moors, Monday 5th December 2011
Today was probably the best days chubbing I’ve had at this venue, I only caught three fish so that’ll tell you how difficult I’ve found it in the past. Generally I trot maggot but today I thought a static approach might be more productive so it was out with the avon quiver tip rod, bread flake for hookbait and mashed bread as feed.
Three swims were targeted, all were quite a walk apart so pre-baiting wasn’t really possible and as usual I started later than I wanted, time was [again] at a premium. I could fish two hours at each swim and the last one was to be a nostalgic treat. Of course if I came across a shoal of chub in any particular spot then I’d stay…that didn’t happen, it never does here.
First up was this spot;
A few tennis ball sized lumps of bread mash were thrown in quickly followed by my hookbait, then it was a case of get the kettle on and cook breakfast. I got a couple of knocks whilst turning the sausages but it was an hour before a proper bite got my attention and this chub slid into the landing net. 2½ pounds maybe;
I was pleased that the tactics had worked and hoped that the feed may have brought more than one fish into the open. Sadly it proved to be a solitary fish yet again, it seemed that I was destined to catch just one chub from any particular swim at the venue, for the next hour my quiver didn’t.
I shouldn’t have felt bad, the next swim encouragingly called ‘The Chub Hole’ failed to trouble the scorers in spectacular fashion. Not even the slightest tremble from Mr Drennan’s finest, I really must ask other NAA members why this swim is so named. I think it might be a ploy to keep new members away from where the chub really are.
So on to the novelty swim. This was another APFA location, the scene where Chris Yates is brewing up the Kelly Kettle and Bob James steals a chub on his rod. It’s changed a bit since then but still looks chubby;
Same tactics and the same result but a little quicker this time. Within five minutes of lobbing in the hookbait a small chub took it and I’d re-enacted the programme footage;
Surely a second fish was too much to hope for but to my amazement I caught another ten minutes later;
That was a first for me, two chub from the same swim at Speen Moors, in relative terms I was baggin’ up. To complete the re-enactment I put the kettle on and had a cup of tea, unfortunately not a Kelly Kettle but a more modern replacement;
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, at this point he must’ve thought that I’d experienced enough euphoria for one day because not more bites were forthcoming. To round off the occasion I spent a very pleasant hour sitting by the river in this swim with the sun slowly getting lower. On my way back to the car I took this pic, another scene from APFA but you’d do well to spot this one;
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