Well, after last weeks session on this stretch, I decided it would be rude not to give it another go, so off I trotted to Bewdley once more, for an afternoon into dusk session on this bit of river.
Upon arrival, I was yet again amazed to see the car park vacant so predictably I setup my gear on the bridge swim once more. The river this week had less colour, had dropped considerably, but still was 18 inches up and looked very good. I setup my usual two pellet rods in anticipation, fully expecting this session to be a good one.
How wrong I was!!!! After two hours, not even a tap on either rod. I spent a while messing around swapping baits and rigs etc, trying meat and boilies, but nothing seemed to be working. Then, almost 3 hours in, I had a screamer finally, which proved to be a splasher about 4 or 5lb. At least this session was going to be a blank!! Then, a bloke came wandering down the river, and spent 30 minutes talking to me about his session at Arley a few years ago. 57 (yes fifty-seven) barbel this guy had in a session he said, and that included 10 doubles!!! Now, I'm not a stranger to BS, but this story reached new levels in my book. He finally left me alone and I could concentrate once more.
10.8 of lovely Severn barbel!!! |
At 4.30pm, just as i was explaining to the camera about the reasons for my poor session, I had a bite on the
upstream rod, which I'd just swapped back to pellet. A good fish that fought deep and long, a few good runs, but mostly dogged. After 5 minutes, I slipped the net under my first Severn double of the season, a beautiful fish of 10.8.
I fished on into dark, but no more barbel appeared, just a solitary chub....didn't matter though, i was well pleased with that fish!!!
See the video to this session here:-
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