A short 4 hour session this one, on a Friday afternoon after work. My original intention was to fish into dark, but a few family problems meant I could only fish until 4.30pm. The river looked good when I arrived, it had risen six inches or so the previous day, and was now dropping again.
I dropped in a few pegs up from the bridge on this session, with my usual two pellets rods out. As I thought it might be though in the sunshine and unseasonally warm temperature (19c, yes 19c!!), it was a bit slow. The temperature was quite astonishing, the end of October and a temperature like that, I can honestly say I've never known anything like it, the water temperature too, more than a 1c up from last week, now at 13.4.
The wildlife too, was lapping up the mild weather, a pair of kingfishers were working the river, and a few furry creatures that I don't know the names of, plus lots of perch chasing fry in the margins, a great day to be out in.
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| Not big, but lovely all the same |
After two hours or so, I had a bite, and a barbel was hooked. I had to play the fish hard to prevent it going into a snag that I knew was there, but I was always in control, and landed the fish fairly quickly, not a bad fish, probably around the 6lb mark, and a good looking barbel, as they all seem to be at Northwood.
It was another hour before my next bite, a screaming pull which I hooked for a few seconds before the hook lost its grasp. Never mind. Sometime later, a tap on the upstream rod, and I hooked
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| Stunning roach |
a fish which I thought was a chub, but it proved to be a stunning roach, maybe a pound or so, but absolutely immaculate in every way, stunning colours and fins, the best looking fish I've caught in some time, simply beautiful.
That proved to be it for day, it was unfortunate I couldn't fish longer, but it doesn't matter, there will be other days.
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