I hadn't visited Northwood since the end of October, and as I've had good sessions here, I decided to give it a go. Bad traffic meant it took 90 minutes to do the 22 mile journey, so I arrived at about 9.15am, with one other angler on the stretch, who was, unsurprisingly, on the bridge peg, which I fancied myself.
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| A nice looking fish |
Never mind, there are plenty of other good swims there, and I ended up choosing a peg toward the top of the stretch, a nice looking peg, with slacker water on the inside, and comfortable to boot. A frost had lessened the chances of a barbel capture, and the weather too, wasn't ideal for the species, very bright indeed, not a cloud in the sky in fact. However, I'm not a barbel, so the weather was more than appreciated by myself, it really was a glorious morning to be out on the bank!
I had decided for a change today too, after a text convo with a mate of mine, I was going to try boilies on one of the rods, as I've been struggling (and blanking) on pellets. So, a mainline spicy crab boilie furnished my downstream rod, and the ever faithful elips finished the upstream one, and I settled back to await events in the sunshine.
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| Not a barbel, but fine by me |
Twenty minutes in, and a screamer....on the boilie rod....a bit of a surprise, and after a short scrap, a fine looking five pounder lay in the net. What a great start this was, so the rod went back out again, complete with a new boilie, in hope the same would happen.
It didn't. So I kept waiting....and nothing happened, until around midday, when I had a tap on the pellet rod, which I knew when it moved was a chub, and a chub it proved to be, around the 2lb mark.
It would have been nice to report the other barbel that graced my net later in the afternoon, but sadly those two fish were my only captures of the day, but never mind, it was great to be out on the bank on such a beautiful day.
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