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Just had another couple of hours at Northcroft. Tried trotting again but the flow too fast. One bite, fish off after a second or 2. River up about a foot after all the rain. Switched to quivver tip and feeder. Double Maggot on 14 hook 3lb hooklength. 5lb mainline. Old craddock glass fibre match rod and mitchell 330 reel. Had problems detecting bites but got a few Dace. Very small knocks on the quivver and maggot getting battered. Any advice might be small fish biting. 3 oz screw in tip on because of the flow and wind. Decided to have one last cast and pack up. Put some gear away and sat back at my rod. Had a proper quivver bite. Tip went right around. Thought it was another small Chub like last time till line went screaming off my reel. 3 big runs without seeing the fish then saw that tell tale dorsal fin.It eventually surfaced and just got it in the net.(must get bigger landing net) I remembered my scales and camera phone this time. Weighed in at 4lb 6oz. First Barbel and bigest fish ever.

Just had another couple of hours at Northcroft. Tried trotting again but the flow too fast. One bite, fish off after a second or 2. River up about a foot after all the rain. Switched to quivver tip and feeder. Double Maggot on 14 hook 3lb hooklength. 5lb mainline. Old craddock glass fibre match rod and mitchell 330 reel. Had problems detecting bites but got a few Dace. Very small knocks on the quivver and maggot getting battered. Any advice might be small fish biting. 3 oz screw in tip on because of the flow and wind. Decided to have one last cast and pack up. Put some gear away and sat back at my rod. Had a proper quivver bite. Tip went right around. Thought it was another small Chub like last time till line went screaming off my reel. 3 big runs without seeing the fish then saw that tell tale dorsal fin.It eventually surfaced and just got it in the net.(must get bigger landing net) I remembered my scales and camera phone this time. Weighed in at 4lb 6oz. First Barbel and bigest fish ever.

Just had another couple of hours at Northcroft. Tried trotting again but the flow too fast. One bite, fish off after a second or 2. River up about a foot after all the rain. Switched to quivver tip and feeder. Double Maggot on 14 hook 3lb hooklength. 5lb mainline. Old craddock glass fibre match rod and mitchell 330 reel. Had problems detecting bites but got a few Dace. Very small knocks on the quivver and maggot getting battered. Any advice might be small fish biting. 3 oz screw in tip on because of the flow and wind. Decided to have one last cast and pack up. Put some gear away and sat back at my rod. Had a proper quivver bite. Tip went right around. Thought it was another small Chub like last time till line went screaming off my reel. 3 big runs without seeing the fish then saw that tell tale dorsal fin.It eventually surfaced and just got it in the net.(must get bigger landing net) I remembered my scales and camera phone this time. Weighed in at 4lb 6oz. First Barbel and bigest fish ever.

Just had my first ever session on a river at the Northcroft Rec in Newbury. Sometimes work in Newbury and had an hour to spare so thought i would have a try. Fished the small riverlet upstream of the footbridge (free)and had a great hour. Trotted double maggot (first time)caught a dozen fish. Some dace, some roach and some rudd(i think)and my first ever Chub. Chub was just over a foot long and heavy set. Had to assemble landing net while playing. Didn't have scales or camera. Any guess on the weight as i would guess it was probably a PB. Roach was a good 9 inches any estimate on that also. Also had a fish about 7 inches that a thought was a roach but no red eye. Think maybe it was a Rudd but no upturned mouth. is it less pronounsed as the fish get bigger. Any guess on that as that would be a PB as well. Hope someone can guess. Recently returned to fishing some not good at estimating Thanks Rob W