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Chris Plumb

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River Kennet - nr Thatcham

 

0830 - 1230

 

Cool (for June) and overcast - with heavy rain for last ½ hour which persuaded me it was time to pack up early and go home for lunch. Heavy overnight rain - but the river was in good nick with good clarity and down a bit on the 16th.

 

1 Chub; 4lb 10oz. 2 Barbel; 2lb 13oz, 2lb 1oz. 13 Dace. 4 Brownies - 2 circa 1lb.

 

(Rusty's going to hate me!)

A quick return to the venue we visited briefly on the opening day in order to get Paul a float caught barbel. Paul had to work today so I was going solo. My choice of todays venue was influenced by 2 factors. 1, I knew it would be pretty quiet and I should get my first choice swims and 2 -, said swims have recieved 6 pints of Rusty's maggots over the previous 48 hours - thanks for the baiting up - Chris!!! wink.gif

 

I started in the swim I put Paul in last Saturday and within 5 minutes of starting - the float dipped and I was met with solid resistence. A battle, as much with the current as the fish ensued and it wasn't long before I had the chub subdued in slightly quieter water - my biggest from here for over 2 years.

 

I was saying to Paul yesterday at Padworth that it's a pity this venue didn't produce more dace - so of course today I started to catch some - interpersed with the odd trout. My starter swim produced no more rod benders - so I followed the bait downstream and fished another favourite - the Bridge swim. Again success was almost instantaneous - with a hard fighting fish stripping line off the centre-pin on the strike - when I eventually got it under control I couldn't believe how small it was! Half an hour later and the trick was repeated - this barbel being even smaller - great fun though.

 

Chub

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Baby Barbel

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My pleasure Chris, that is a good chub for that venue, well done! I still have Friday off and the afternoon forecast is dry so I may yet achieve a barbel on the float (two more pints are in the fridge).

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It is Chris - I've had the odd 5lber from there - usually from that swim too! Good luck if you go Friday - you deserve one. BTW I fished 'your' banker swim for the first time - never trotted it before as I assumed it was in the out of bounds area - but clearly isn't. Had a couple of clonking dace from it - and both bigger troot..:( It's a lovely swim in current conditions.

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