Severn Stoke - 29th November 2014

The peg

Well, it's been a few weeks now since my last post, unfortunately my dad passed away a few weeks ago following a short illness, so that kept me away from the bank. Before his illness, I had intended

to give the Lower Severn some serious time, so, now that I am the other side of it, I decided to try Severn Stoke, below the car park.

The river was in good trim, down to about 3 feet up after being 6 feet up during the week. The air temp was also very good, around 12c, and I was fishing by 1.15pm in glorious sunshine. I started with a big lump of meat on the downstream rod, with my ever faithful double elips on the upstream one. It wasn't long before I had a bite, which surprised me a little, a savage pull too. Not a barbel though unfortunately, but a nice chub, probably around 2.5lb. Not a bad start though.

On the strength of this, I decided to drop the meat, and switch the downstream rod to pellet too,

A welcome chub

trying some of the sonubait spicy sausage pellets that had been recommended. This turned out to be a great decision, as after around 20 minutes, the same rod whacked over and I was into a barbel, a hard fighting one too, it went off on several screaming run, before finding a snag under my feet.

After a bit of pressure, and then slack line, the fish came out of the snag, and I managed to land it, a fine looking fish of 8.12, my very first lower Severn barbel!!!

A beautiful Lower Severn fish

That proved to be it though, but a near 9 pounder at the end of November is a result in anyones book.

Happy days!






See the video to this session here:-