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Wednesday, 11 February 2015

A Couple of Hours on the Upper Avon

It’s not often a fishing trip goes to plan, but Tuesday was to be the exception,

I had decided to fish the Upper Avon near Malmesbury for Grayling, not a species that is prolific on this river, my plan was to trot maggots staying mobile to cover as much water as possible,

A good size Brown

Setting up with a small Drennan chubber as the river was low and clear and a size 16 barbless hook

With two maggots one pink one red my favourite combination , I soon caught an out of season Brown trout which although good fun on light tackle was not the target species, in fact I was to be pestered by these all day ,
Until I reduced the amount of loose feed maggots into the swims, I did catch 5 roach up to 1/2lb in one swim but determined to catch a Grayling, I moved on,
As the light started to faded I settled into a swim with a run between overhanging trees, On my first trot I bumped a fish which is usually the kiss of death for a small river, but I gave it another run though anyway to be rewarded by a small but perfectly formed Grayling of 20cm, mission accomplished the next run though produced a small chub then the trout moved in and I decide to call it a day,

Small but very Welcome

Low and Clear

Saturday, 6 December 2014

Pike Fishing on the Bristol Avon

With Short Day light hours and Christmas to prepare for an enjoyable way to make the most out of your winter fishing is a short session on the river lure fishing for pike,

So armed with a selection of lures both soft plastic and hard lures,
I sent off on Tuesday to explore a section of the Upper Avon I had not fished before,
The river was in perfect condition slightly up with a tinge of colour,
Moving down stream fishing every 20 metres soon produced the first fish of the session a small Jack pike of around 4lb , on a gold Savage gear shad one of my old favourites sadly not made any more ,

Time to change to a fox replicate, 5’’5, working my way back along the river the lure was hit by a bigger pike which put up a spirited fight making 3 runs down stream before I netted it, this one weighed just over 10lb a nice size for a small river,
so well worth making the effort , will return to this section of river to try it for Chub in the new year,

Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Korum River Feeders on Test. Bristol Avon 18/11/2014

River

A quick visit to the upper Avon on Tuesday to perhaps catch a Barbel and to test the new Korum River Feeders ,

Met with mixed success while the river which happened to be flowing a touch too high proved a good testing for the river feeders I would be using ,

Fishing with a 12mm Halibut pellet and Sonu baits Hemp & Hali ground bait, produced a couple of small Chubb of around a 1lb plus a 2 lber, so not a blank and I will be back to re try the feeders in the near furture,

Korum 60gram River feeder

A Chubb of 2 lb ish

Saturday, 15 November 2014

Autumn Round-up

It's been a busy month or so for me. I've fished local rivers, lakes, rocky marks along the Devon coast, the Bristol Channel from the sea wall at Severn Beach and the famous Shambles Bank from the deck of Colin Penny's boat, Flamer IV of Weymouth. The fishing has been good with a whole host of species caught. Roach, chub, dace, a new personal best grayling, perch, bream, tench and carp to low double figures have all kept me busy on the rivers and lakes. Sea fishing trips have produced codling, bass, plaice, wrasse, my first turbot and first tope. I've also seen black bream, tub gurnard and blonde ray caught. All good fun and very enjoyable.