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19.11.21 - River Kennet - Aldermaston
Bayleaf the Gardener posted a blog entry in The Newbury & Port Talbot Blanker
While other bloggers were piling our perch further downstream, Aldermaston was giving me a hard time. I'd started pike fishing on a slow bend where the river starts meandering, but my first cast snagged a root and cost me a trace, bomb and beloved 20 year old pike float. The second brought back 3 large and brutish crayfish clinging to what was left of my mackerel strip. Pointless deadbaiting, so I put on a crayfish lure and twitched it along the bottom. Result: another blinkin' cannibalistic crayfish. I switched rods, and started link-legering cheesepaste in 'chubby' looking areas. Ha! The crays weren't in the least bit interested, but then neither were the chub. I moved swims to a lovely straight stretch and started trotting, holding the float back slightly overdepth with the centrepin, having loose fed for 15 mins in the Plumb-honoured way. Result: 2 small dace and an 8oz trout. I switched swims several times, kept the bait trickling, changed the depth and shot patterns, doubled and singled the maggots but as usual, I failed to lure any decent fish, nor even a minnow. Leaving after 7 hours of trying, I drove off quite despondent, but then that makes my modest successes all the more delicious.