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| The Severn at Northwood |
Well, after a few days of heavy rain (finally), I had high hopes for this session, with my usual first choice Warks Avon still unaffected by the rain, this held the best chance of a few fish. A couple of mates were also going there, so at least there would be someone to talk should it be hard going. I found the river about 14 inches up when I arrived, and a lovely colour. The sun was out though, but I did quite fancy it for a few. I setup my usual two pellet rods, with double elips on both, but it proved to be slow, probably the drop in water temperature in the days previous being to blame. My mate Lee in the next peg down was also blanking, so it seemed tough all over. Another angler with a southern accent came wandering up, explaining he'd never caught a barbel before, and this was his first attempt....he hadn't picked the best of days!
Not long after that, finally, I had a tap, which at first I thought was a chub, but it proved to be a barbel, not a huge one, but welcome, about the 5lb mark. Then, this was followed by action in the next swim up, southern guy has manage to connect with a fish, which was taking him all over the river. I wandered up as he landed it, and could see it was a good fish. He hadn't got any scales, so I obliged, and his first barbel went 9lb 2oz, a great fish for his first, and it was worth being there to see the smile on his face, he was ecstatic!!
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| The only fish of a hard session |
Back in my swim, I could hear southern guy phoning every one of his mates, all I could hear was, "it was 9lb 2oz..." on every call, you know the sort of thing. During one of these calls, I had an absolute screamer, baitrunner whizzing away. I never did manage to stop it though, straight into a snag downstream, and that proved to be the last of the action for the day.....at least it wasn't a blank.
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