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Middle Kennet Estate - Kintbury

 

0900 - 1630

 

Cold (-1ºC ->3ºC), bright and breezy. Clouding over somewhat in the afternoon. WT 7ºC (won't stay like that for long). River still very high but quite clear.

 

2 Chub; 4lb 3oz & 1¾lb, 5 Grayling; 3 over a pound best, 1lb 13oz. 10 Dace - only two of which were below 8oz! :o . Best 13oz which I achieved twice. 5 Brownies to 4lb and 2 Rainbows to 1¾lb.

 

Club day so the plan was to target dace all day and not really move too far from the likely holding areas. As it happened I had the place to myself as only one other angler turned up! Meant I could give the swim a good rest during the worst of the bright sunshine knowing I would be able to get on them again as it got dark - just as well as 8 of them were caught in the last hour of light.

 

One of the 13oz dace - (note a rare outing for the Witcher Avon Elite :rolleyes: )

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Fat Chub

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Wilderness Lady

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Rusty

Well done Chris, your lunchtime text suggested it might be a grafting day but you did find the dace. Nice Avon Elite too, the other ones I've seen haven't had the Witcher blacking finish but in the photo yours looks anodised black.

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Chris Plumb

Was a bit of a graft around the middle of the day - thankfully the fading light turned things around! The reel will still be in my quiver on Sat so you can have a gawp then if Saturday 'happens'!

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barbeldave

A really nice day's fishing there Chris. I miss my Kennet days at Lower Denford. I also miss my winter fishing on the Test at Nursliing Mill. Both fisheries were lost to the corporate trout money makers :-(

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Chris Plumb

Certainly pine-ing for LD this winter - with these high waters those carriers will be stuffed with monster dace! Such a shame!

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