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  1. Harris Lake - Marsh Farm fishery, Milford. 0600 - 2245 Warm with bright sunshine for most of the day - clouding over somewhat for the last 3-4 hours of daylight (thankfully!) AT, a chilly 5ºC when I arrived, highs of around 24ºC and 16ºC when I drove off a little after a 11pm. 12 Tench. Various sizes over 2lb with 4 over 4lb - biggest 5lb 12oz. 2 Crucians; both pounders though not by a lot. A doz roach and rudd - mainly rudd with sizes ranging from tiny up to a rudd of 14oz. Annual get together of the IAC and it was great to see faces old and new and remember those that are no longer with us. Today would have been Paul's 65th birthday hence why I chose it for the date of the 10th crucian fish-in. I think most folks caught 'something' with quite a few tench showing , biggest I heard of was Geoff's tinca of 6lb 8oz. The goal though is to get a crucian as the trophy goes to the biggest one caught and they were noticeable by their absence - unless you were in Peg 37. Alex drew this peg and put us all to shame by catching no fewer than 18 crucians - the only one out of 16 anglers to get one! His biggest was a modest 1lb 8oz so Alex wins the trophy for a 2nd time with a fish just half as big as his 2019 win. I caught mainly roach and rudd but fished on with Gary after everyone else had left and eventually manged to winkle out a couple of crus amongst the plethora of tench. Gary managed a 2lb 3oz warrior literally last cast (we agreed to pack up at 1045pm so as to be on the road home by 1100pm and he had this fish at 2243!) Here's to next year - and I might bring my own signs this time to say the lake is booked (I had to kick off 4 interlopers, as whilst the booking was on the match calendar on the website it wasn't on the fishery noticeboard!) My biggest.
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  2. Middle Kennet Weir Pool, Marsh Benham 0500 - 1100 Warm and sunny - though feeling a tad chilly when I arrived. AT 10º - 24ºC. River low and looking a little threadbare. 9 Chub; 3lb 3oz. a 'pounder' and 7 chublets. 1 Bream; 2lb 4oz. 2 Doz Dace; all a 'nice' size but nothing particularly noteworthy. 5 Roach; small. 2 Rainbows both 2lb (and possibly the same fish!), 1 Brownie C½lb. Pleasant morning's trotting by the shade of the bankside trees - hadn't realised how warm it had got until I walked back to the car! Nearly all fish from the weir pool apart from the 3lb chub which was from further downstream. An otter came up through as I was packing up - swam through the pool and scampered up the weir to head upstream!
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  3. Warwick's Water - Thatcham 1830 - 2300 Warm and sunny. AT 21º - 14ºC. 2 Tench: 2lb 13oz & 1½lb. 1 Perch 1lb 9oz. Summer tench campaign on this water starts with a (half) decent perch - my first over a lb from the water - which is rumoured to hold MUCH bigger ones! The perch came early in the session when the sun was still one the water and I wasn't really expecting a bite. Both tench, however, were caught after 2130.
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  4. River Kennet - Hambridge 0430 - 1200 Warm and mainly sunny. AT 15º - 20ºC. River quite low - normal summer levels though a lot lower than this time last year. 12 Chub: 10 over a lb, best 3lb 6oz with one other over 3lb - all the others 1½-2½lbs. 4 doz (!) Dace & Roach. More dace than roach and whilst nothing particularly noteworthy all the dace were a nice size. All the roach were quite small save one that needed the net and may have pushed 8oz. 11 Brownies - 1 'pounder' and 10 small uns - probably multiple captures - I caught one with an identifiable scar on it three times! 1 Grayling - c6oz. 1 Bleak. Super start to the new season - great to see sooooo many silvers in the river. After last year's extravaganza here, this had to be the venue to kick off a new campaign and whilst no specimens were banked it was great to see so many fish in the river. Fished 4 swims and had chub from all of them while most of the dace and roach came from the road bridge swim - bite a chuck at times! First fish of the season...
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  5. Not done one of these since 2019, though not much had changed until the season just finished! Best Carp – 27lb 6oz. 15 August 2008. Blue Pool – Burghfield. Method feeder – hair-rigged hemp bogey. Best Pike – 18lb 10oz. 10 February 2001. River Lambourn – Newbury. Free-lined Lamprey section. Best Barbel – 12lb 4oz. 27 July 2004. River Kennet, Arrowhead – Thatcham. Ledgered Halibut pellet. Best Bream – 12lb 2oz. 2 July 2011. Summer Pit – Yateley. Float fished (lift method) maggot. Best Brown Trout – 8lb 12oz. 14 March 2008. Middle Kennet Estate – Newbury. Trotted maggot. (No photo) Best Tench – 8lb 2oz. 30 July 2024. Warwicks Water – Thatcham. Float fished (lift method) prawn section. Best Chub – 7lb 3oz. 28 February 2025. River Kennet (flowing canal) - Colthrop. Trotted maggot. Best Salmon – 5lb 10oz. 13 October 2008. Lower Itchen Fishery. Trotted Maggot. (No Photo) Best Rainbow Trout – 5lb 5oz. 10 March 2023. Middle Kennet - Marsh Benham. Trotted Maggot. (No Photo) Best Perch – 4lb 5oz. 28 October 2013. Kennet & Avon Canal – Thatcham. Float fished lobworm. Best Crucian – 4lb 2oz. 20 June 2022. Johnsons Lake - Milford. Float fished prawn section. Best Sea Trout - 3lb 15oz. 1 November 2024. River Frome - Wool. Trotted red sweetcorn. (No Photo) Best Grayling – 2lb 15oz. 6 January 2002. Lower Itchen Fishery. Trotted maggot. Best Roach – 2lb 11oz. 7 February 2003. Middle Kennet Carrier – Nr Hungerford. Trotted maggot. Best Eel - 2lb 1oz: 12 June 2015. Mill Farm, Pulborough. Ledgered prawn. Best Brown Goldfish - 1lb 14oz: 21 June 2005. Float fished Bread, Pumphouse Lake, Yateley. (No Photo) Best Rudd - 1lb 11oz 18 June 2018. Johnsons Lake - Milford. Float fished prawn section. Best Dace – 1lb 2oz. 7 February 2003. Middle Kennet Carrier – Nr Hungerford. Trotted maggot.
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  6. Another season comes to a close and a rather splendid one it was too. Bookended by two fabulous chub which twice upped a PB that had stood since the 2011/12 season. My tench best also fell, a record that had stood since 2003 was bettered by something of a mug fish which was caught multiple times over the summer by different anglers (I caught it twice!) Record rainfall in September burst the springs on the downs unusually early and put the Kennet into flood or near flood all winter. This, again, led me to explore and get to know some new stretches of river notably at Colthrop which produced some amazing chub! Best Carp: 12lb 6oz. 20 August. Free-lined bread crust, Marshall's Mere. One of the few carp caught 'by design' as I usually try and avoid the blighters when I'm after tench. This rather ugly looking one was caught after a blank evening for the tincas! Best Tench: 8lb 2oz (New PB). 30 July. Float fished prawn section, Warwicks Water. I had some splendid evenings' tench fishing on this small lake over the summer with several tench over 5lb including this stunning specimen. This fish was caught by other anglers over the summer and came out at 9lb, full of spawn, in May. I caught her again, 4 ounces lighter,at the end of August. Best Chub: 7lb 3oz (new PB). 28 February. Trotted maggot, River Kennet (flowing canal) - Colthrop. First days of the season are just about being back on the bank - not chasing personal bests yet my season started with me breaking a PB that had stood for over 12 years. I do love catching chub and that 6lb 10oz fish on a bright June morning was the fish of my dreams. A very plump fish which I don't think had yet spawned, it was the highlight of a superlative morning's angling. I could little imagine that less than 9 months later I'd be celebrating a chub over ½lb bigger! I've fished Colthrop sporadically over tha last 2 or 3 decades and never really caught much of note despite whispers that there were decent fish to be found. A flooded Kennet put a couple of my favourite venues (Hambridge & Brimpton) out of action for large parts of the autumn and winter and meant I fished Colthrop more times this season than the previous 10+ years combined. The venue is close to home so lent itself to short sessions of exploration. The results have been sensational - I've caught exactly 2 dozen chub of which over ½ (14) have been in excess of 4lb, culminating in this spectacular 7lber, which was another gravid fish at its top winter weight. In addition - and somewhat surprisingly,the venue threw up a number of decent grayling to over 2lb! 6lb 10oz 7lb 3oz Best Bream: 6lb 13oz. 18 June. Float fished prawn section - lift method, Marshall's Mere. I don't catch many bream on this lake and this fish, a by-catch on a tenching session is by far and away my biggest ever from the water! Best Sea Trout: 3lb 15oz (new PB). 1 November. Trotted Maggot - River Frome, Wool. I got rather plagued with sea trout on my two trips to Wool this season - I did actually weigh this one as I thought it was well over 4lbs - but didn't realise I hadn't caught a bigger Sea Trout until I got home (might have taken its picture if I'd realised!) Best Perch: 3lb 9oz. 15 November. Float fished maggot - River Kennet, Hambridge. For the third year running my biggest perch was a 3lber from the River Kennet (as opposed to the K&A Canal). 6 of the 7, 2½+lb perch I caught this season came from the river at Hambridge - though as I never caught more than two in a session I do wonder how many were repeat captures! Best Barbel: 3lb 6oz. 9 October. Ledgered Elips pellets - River Kennet, Hambridge. The biggest of 7 barbel I caught from the Kennet this season - my best since 2013/14 (when I had 14) and whilst all modest in size they were a very welcome sight! Best Crucian: 2lb 10oz. 1 July. Float fished prawn section, Harris Lake, Marsh Farm. Scratchy summer on the crucian front and the first season since 2014/15 that I failed to catch a 3lber. Best Grayling: 2lb 6oz. 1 December. Trotted Maggot, Lower Itchen Fishery. Its been a stellar autumn/winter for grayling with 13 fish over 2lb - my best since 2008/09 (when I caught 13 X 2lbers in a day on the Lower Itchen!). For the first time ever in the same season I caught 2lb+ ladies from 4 different rivers (Frome, Itchen, Kennet & Lambourn). Best Dace: 13oz. 8 November. Trotted maggot - Northcroft Stream, Newbury.
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  7. River Kennet - Colthrop 1300 - 1530 Cool & mainly cloudy with the odd spot of rain. River full and fairly clear. 1 Chub: 3lb 13oz. 1 Grayling: 2lb 2oz !! 2 Brownies: 6-10oz. This venue is on the way home from my syndicate stretch so I couldn't resist giving it a few hours for the 4th Friday afternoon in a row!! Fished my 3 'banker' chub swims giving each ¾hr. Had the chub from the first swim followed by the brownies and the grayling from the second. Think its the same 2lb lady I caught in December - twas an ounce heavier this time and looked in better health and was caught a few hundred meters upstream. Somewhat fittingly, as its been a super winter for grayling, it was my last fish of the season....
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  8. Warwick's Water 1830 - 2245 Hot and sultry. AT 29ºC when I arrived and still 23ºC when I left. 4 Tench: 8lb 2oz (new PB), 6lb 0oz, 4lb 7oz, 4lb 3oz. 4 Perch - all small. Wow - second PB of the summer (after my opening day chub) and after a rather unpromising start too. As earlier in the month I began by float fishing worm - but the small perch started depleting my meagre stock of lobs at an alarming rate so I switched to the prawn that I'd put in my bait bucket as a last minute after-thought as I'd left home. The result was almost instantaneous with the 2, 4lbers in quick succession. The 8lber came along a little after 9.30pm and in the gloom I had no clue as to its weight until it was in the net and I tried to lift it out the water! Beats my previous PB of 7-10 by ½lb - a fish I caught back in 2003! There was still time for a bit more action - it was just past 10.30pm and I was thinking I'll pack up at 11pm or next fish when the starlite disappeared one more time resulting in the feisty 6lber - which put up a much more resolute fight than the 8!
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  9. Kennet & Avon Canal - Enborne (down) 1430 - 1715 Sunny spells. AT 10º - 8ºC. 9 Perch: 6 over a lb, best 3: 2lb 10oz, 2lb 1oz. 1lb 13oz. First visit to a new swim from one of the platforms on Dog Sh!t Alley. I rarely fish here and the amount of footfall and dog poo on the tow-path reminded me why! However walking this bit recently sans rods I spied this spot which simply screams perch so resolved to give it a try. My hunch was soon confirmed with a perch of 1½lb in the first 20mins but by the time 4.45pm rolled around I'd only added the 3 smaller ones to my tally. There then followed a bonkers ¼hr of action. As so often happens on the canal in winter the setting sun was a cue for the dinner bell to sound and 5 fish in 5 casts produced nearly 10lb of stripeys. On the stroke of 5.00pm bites ceased and a flock of canada geese landing in my swim triggered time to pack up! Biggest canal perch of the season.
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  10. River Frome - Wool 0830 - 1400 Cool, calm & cloudy. A benign winter's day! AT 4º - 7ºC. River quite pacey with a tinge of colour. 1.17 on the East Stoke gauge. 11 Grayling; 6 over a lb - best three: 2lb 2oz, 1lb 14oz, 1lb 10oz. 7 Brownies: a 3lb+ and half a dozen small-uns. 2 Sea trout; 2½lb & 3lb. Slow and steady day - fish from 3 swims though the majority from just one spot. Sea trout were a bit of a menace - I lost 3 after extensive aerial antics and was also briefly connected to what I think was a salmon! All fish on maggot, didn't get a single bite on sweetcorn which was a surprise. 10th, 2lb+ grayling of the season!
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  11. River Kennet Backstream - Colthrop 1300 - 1530 Cool and cloudy. AT 7ºC. River at normal winter levels - not quite as pacey as last time here. 3 Chub: 4lb 5oz, 3lb11oz, 3lb 2oz. 1 Grayling c ¾lb. Another sesh in my new found chub swim and the chub were at home this time! Caught the bigger two then rested the spot for an hour while I tried yet more new swims - for the solitary grayling. Third chub immediately after the hiatus - adding up to a very satisfactory short trip!
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  12. Middle Kennet Carrier (& main River) 0900 - 1400 Cool and overcast. At 4º - 6ºC. River high, very pacey, clear and weed free. 3 Chub: a couple of 3lbers (best 3-07) and a 'pounder'. 3 Roach, 2 Dace - all fairly small. 9 Brownies 2-3½lb. 1 Rainbow: C. 2½lb. Worked my way down the entire length of the fishery - trying to avoid trout - though not very successfully - a very disappointing Chub to Trout ratio! And it looks like the silvers are doing a bit of a disappearing act like they did last winter!
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  13. Lower Itchen Fishery 0830 - 1600 Mild and rainy all morning, brighter after lunch save for a shower as I packed up. AT 13º. River at normal levels (maybe a little high) with some colour which got worse during the day. 9 Grayling: 7 over a lb, Best 4: 2lb 6oz (SB), 2lb 5oz, 2lb 2oz, 1lb 14oz. 2 Chub: 4lb 12oz & 4lb 3oz. 6 Brownies 2-3½lb. A soggy day in Hampshire at a fish-in organised by Neal (Big thank you BTW!). Got a 2lb 2oz grayling first trot through which took the pressure off some what!! Thereafter bites at a bit of a premium but when I did connect it usually resulted in a decent fish. Alternated between red corn and maggot - both chub and all the trout on corn - most of the grayling on maggot, though the first cast 2lber was on corn. Both bigger grayling from the same swim once the sun had come out in the afternoon - improved visibility in turbid water??? Got asked for my rod licence - first time in around 20 years! A trio of 2lbers 2-02 2-06 2-05
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  14. River Lambourn - Newbury 0800 - 1200 Cold & clear. AT -2º - +3ºC. River at normal levels and gin clear as always - despite nearly an inch of precipitation falling yesterday. 13 Grayling: 6 over a lb - the best two went 1lb 11oz & 1lb 9oz. 1 Brownie - small. First cold snap of the autumn - proper grayling weather with the ferrules icing up for the first hour or so. Bit of a scratchy session - usual catch a couple and move on tactics with only one of the 'hotspots' from my last trip here producing any fish at all!
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  15. Kennet & Avon 'flowing' Canal & Backstream, Thatcham/Colthrop 0730 - 1430 Cool & breezy with sunny spells. AT 4ºC - 10ºC. River at normal levels and quite clear. 5 Chub: 5lb, 4lb 10oz, 4lb 3oz, 3lb 15oz, 3lb 7oz. 4 Dace: a smallun and 3 good-uns - which all got weighed 2@10oz topped by one of 12oz. 1 Grayling 1lb 2oz. 2 Brownies - a 'pounder' and a parr. Started off on the hunt for big dace and for the second trip running here a 1lb grayling turned up in my dace swim! Fishing around ¼ mile upstream from my previous lady, this time I was totally convinced I was into a really good dace, as I'd just slipped the 12oz one back and the grayling was next trot through with the float burying at the same spot! Having worked my way down the canal it was off to my new favourite chub swim on the backstream (after a bit of lunch). Took it nice and slow - resting the spot for 10-15mins after each fish which seemed to do the trick as I had bites pretty much straight away each time I re-started trotting...
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  16. River Frome - Wool 0700 - 1400 Mild, mainly cloudy with sunny spells. AT 11ºC. River in fine fettle, quite pacey and with a tinge of colour. 1.10m on the E Stoke gauge. 16 Grayling: ALL over a lb(!) with eleven 1½lb or better. Best four: 2lb 5oz, 2lb 2oz, 1lb 15oz, 1lb 14oz. 2 Sea trout, 3lb 15oz and a 'pounder'. 3 brownies - all 4-6oz. A splendid day's grayling fishing, all fish caught trotting (of course) - my arm aches. First time I've fished the opening day on the Frome and despite arriving in the gloom that was 0645 I wasn't the first on the water! My worries about it being busy were unfounded however - I only saw 2 other anglers - and very unusually for me I fished the same spot for the entire 7 hours. Each time that I thought the swim had gone dead I'd get another bite - so a slow and steady stream on fat ladies was the order of the day. I alternated between red corn and red maggot on the hook all session. Got fewer bites on corn but 3 of the 4 bigger fish listed above fell to it! Overall though, a super stamp of fish which certainly justifies the 180mile round trip and the early start! Biggest of the day (and a season's best).
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  17. Kennet & Avon 'flowing' canal - Thatcham 1300 - 1500 Mild, calm and overcast. AT 14ºC. River quite pacey, some of the barges were making very slow progress upstream, against the current! 1 Grayling 1lb 1oz. 4 Dace: all chunky with one good-un of 10oz. 2 Roach - a netter of around 8-10oz and a small-un. Never been so disappointed to get a 1lb+ grayling! I don't fish here very often but it has thrown up some really big dace in recent autumns and that was the target for this short visit. I had a 1lb 1oz fish last season and a 15oz fish in 2020 and having already caught a dace of over ½lb assumed I was into an even bigger one - especially when I could make out the silver flashes below the surface. More than a little surprised then for my 1lb dace to turn into a grayling when I got it to the net - not a species I expect to see this far down the Kennet - especially on a canalised section!
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  18. Kennet & Avon Canal & River Kennet backstream - Colthrop 0730 - 1400 Mild and overcast with occasional light showers. AT 14ºC. River quite pacey with a tinge of colour. 6 Chub (!) 5lb 6oz, 5lb 1oz, 4lb 11oz, 4lb 8oz, 4lb 4oz, 3lb 13oz. 7 Roach: all hand-sized. 3 Perch: all c6-8oz. 4 Brownies; 4lb 6oz (yes I actually weighed it!), 2 'pounders' and a parr. Another recce session - started off on a stretch of the canal I've never fished before hoping to find some decent perch. 2 hours later and with just 3 modest stripeys to show for my efforts I moved back upstream to the river proper to again fish some new swims in the hunt for chub. Third swim I dropped into I hit the jackpot! Really nice stamp of fish - all in mint condition and all from surprisingly fast water - which meant I also lost a couple (one of which I'm pretty sure was a big trout). Rested the spot twice for ½-¾hr each time and had fish almost immediately when I returned after each hiatus. Definitely a spot I shall be revisiting this winter! Biggest of the morning.
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  19. River Kennet - Hambridge 1330 - 2130 Sunny spells, cool after dark and very dewy! AT 16º - 9ºC. River quite 'full' and with a little colour. 1 Perch: 2lb 14oz. 2 Chub: 2lb 10oz & a 'pounder'. 1 Barbel: 2lb 2oz. A doz+ Roach - all small. 5 Dace - nothing noteworthy. 3 Grayling: 6-10oz. 2 Gudgeon. 5 Brownies; C2lb+ and 4 parrs. Another trotting/ledgering session and another small barbel - hooray! This swim is in danger of returning to its former glory! The highlight of the afternoon was the super perch - my 2nd biggest of the season - and a real barrel of a fish. Trotting produced the usual mixed bag - 9 species caught in total, including minnows. Ledgering into dark produced just 2 twitches - the bigger chub followed by the, hoped for, barbel - again great to see some juvenile fish in the river. Just shy of 3lb!
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  20. Middle Kennet - carrier (and main river), Marsh Benham 0900 - 1400 Mild & misty. At 11ºC - 16ºC. River at normal levels with a tinge of colour. 3 Chub: 4lb 3oz, 3lb 7oz & a chublet. 3 Barbel: all small ½-1lb. 1 Bream: 3lb 6oz. 20 Roach: all small. 5 Dace: all chunky with one real goodun of ½lb+. 1 Perch c6oz. 5 Brownies; four between 2-3½lb and a smallun. Super morning's trotting - first cast resulted in a 1lb barbel - quickly followed by a couple of even smaller ones! All fish from the carrier apart from the 3lb chub & bream which were my only bites on the main river. Second consecutive trip here when I've caught barbel - having never had one here before! And another first - there was a large white egret hanging around the venue all morning - a rare (but becoming less so) UK visitor - think oversized white heron with a yellow beak - a very impressive bird!
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  21. River Lambourn - Newbury 1330 - 1600 Mild, overcast and very breezy. AT 14ºC. River at normal levels and gin clear as ever. 24 Grayling with half over a lb. Best five: 2lb, 1lb 15oz, 1lb 14oz (X2), 1lb 12oz. 6 Brownies: one of around 1½lb, four between 6-10oz and a parr. Fabulous afternoon's sport - great to see so many lovely big grayling here - harks back a couple of decades when it regularly produced fish of this stamp. One of the 1-14's was first cast and a passing (though non-fishing) angler stopped to watch me land my 2lber and offered to take my picture with it - though I'm not sure how many grayling he's caught as he estimated it at 3lbs (I wish!). First fish of the afternoon. 2lbs on the nose.
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  22. Middle Kennet Carrier (& main river) - Marsh Benham 0700 - 1300 Mild and overcast. AT 12º - 15ºC. River up several inches and carrying quite a bit of colour (after a month's worth of rain fell yesterday!) 16 Chub: 2lb 7oz and a pounder, the rest all small or very small. 2 Barbel !! 'biggest' 1lb 2oz. 9 Dace - all quite chunky. 21 Roach - most quite small with 3 or 4 better ones (4-6oz). 6 Brownies: 4 over a lb - all 2½-3½lb and a couple around 10-12oz. Had today pencilled in to go fishing for a while as Mrs P was out to lunch with her friends - but was dubious that I'd find the river in a fishable condition after the biblical amounts of rain we had yesterday (The Thatcham site recorded 49mm from yesterday's rainstorm - pretty much a month's worth!). The river was very coloured up - but I deemed it fishable and a 2lb+ chub in the first 10 minutes from the main river built a lot of confidence in my decision! However that chub was pretty much my only bite from the main river so I switched my attentions to the carrier which did appear to be slightly less coloured. Always pleased to catch barbel from the Kennet these days - regardless of size and these were my first ever barbel from this stretch. Also great to see so many juvenile chub - bodes well for a few season's time! Baby Barbel
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  23. Warwick's Water - Thatcham 1800 - 2230 Warm and clear - with quite a stiff SE breeze - great for keeping the mozzies away! AT 21ºC - 16ºC 3 Tench: 5lb 12oz, 4lb 12oz, 3lb 3oz. Summer is giving us a last hurrah this week so it was back to my new favourite tench water (but still secretly hoping for a big perch!). Got off to the best of possible starts - was wondering why my float wouldn't cock when I made my first cast then realised it was skating across the surface of the pond - the smaller tench having snaffled my lob on the drop! A good omen for a good session but I would have to wait over 3 hours for my next bite and whilst my swim was bathed in sunshine for my opening tench the lake was illuminated by the Harvest super moon for my second - the 5lber - which fought more like a bream on diazepam! Not so my final tench of the evening - a very feisty male which I did well to extract from the lilies. So an end to a fabulous summer evenings' tenching on this water - kept up my average of 3 per session - but where are those fabled big stripeys?
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  24. Warwick's Water - Thatcham 1830 - 2230 Warm, overcast and muggy. AT 24ºC - 16ºC. 4 Tench: 7lb 14oz, 4lb 12oz, 3lb 1oz, 2lb 6oz. Another super evening on my 'new' favourite tench water. That's now 12 tench in 4 evening trips here - on what people keep telling me is a hard water! All the action between 8:15pm and 9:15pm as darkness set in - no bites before or after. All caught on float fished lobs. The biggie was the same fish I had out at the end of July when she was 4oz heavier - not surprising she's lost some weight as this was her 4th trip to the bank this summer (at least!), I know of 2 other anglers that have caught it and she was over 9lb when she came out full of spawn in May!
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  25. River Kennet - Speen Moors 1100 - 1500 Warm and mainly overcast with some sunny spells - quite muggy. AT 21ºC. River quite low - normal summer levels. 8 Perch: 5 over a lb - best 3, 1lb 11oz, 1lb 15oz & 2lb 3oz. 4 Chub: 4lb 12oz, 3lb 4oz, a 'pounder' and a chublet. 7 Roach; all fairly small save one that needed the net and was circa 10-12oz. 3 Dace - all good-uns in the 6-8oz class. 6 Gudgeon. Super afternoon's sport, my first trip to Speen this season - all fish from one swim on the big weirpool - which I rested for half an hour or so while I had some lunch and went for a bit of a wander. Did the trick as I had the 3lb chub and 2 more perch after the brief hiatus. Biggest chub from Speen in 4 seasons and this fish will be much heavier in the autumn - was very hollow and spawned out.
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