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Thanks, Keith, that's particularly encouraging that you were able to fish productively during the day. I was concerned that weed and bright weather might make things difficult. Were the roach any size? Your B&B sounds great. I have missed a trick there, I should have checked the angling press. I have booked a B&B through AirNb. No tackle can be taken into the house, and originally that applied to fishing clothes too! But I expect it will be OK.

Two mates and I spent a week on the Stour at Throop Mill at the start of the season a couple of years ago and we caught plenty of Roach and Dace and perch plus some very nice Chub; but no Barbel unfortunately. Our largest Chub were just over 5lb and were caught at around dusk on large pieces of bread flake or bread crust fished on the bottom using a half ounce lead and a size 6 hook. During the day we trotted for the Roach using our centrepins and occasionally our fixed spool reels using casters, hemp or maggots for bait; and then changed over to our Avon rods with fixed spool reels and fished light leads with bread crust and bread flake in the evenings and occasionally with Luncheonmeat. We stayed at a bed & breakfast in the street running parallel to the river at Throop which advertised in the fishing weeklies but I can’t remember it’s name as my mate did the booking. The woman who ran the bedsit used to give us sandwiches and a flask of coffee to keep us fed during the day while we fished and had a tackle room where we could keep our tackle at night. It was a very enjoyable and productive weeks fishing and I’d do it again. Keith

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