After a couple of weeks off for a very nice family holiday,  it’s time to get out fishing again.  Unfortunately, work has gone mad and my time is going to be limited for the next month or so.  Which is a shame, however, you need to get the money to buy the stuff to get out and play (that’s life).  Anyway, I have a few hours free, so off to the river for me.  I felt that this was the best plan for me this evening. 

It had been a bit stormy and hopefully that would stur the fish up for a bit of a feed.

I found a nice area which had a very clean patch of gravel, by some norfolk reeds.  I dropped a few small balls of bait-tech ground bait mixed with pellet, sweetcorn and plenty of liquid attraction.  With a bit of fake pellet as hook bait and some paste moulded around it, I carefully lowered the rig down on to the clear patch of gravel.

The other rod was flicked across the other side of the river onto a shallow sandy patch.

After 2 hours of the swans plowing up and down feeding, I was getting a bit fed up.  The sun was coming out it and it was turning into a pleasant evening.  I moved my other rod to this bank, a floating raft of weed was under my rod tip.

I baited up with a small amount of goundbait, I am using bait-Tech pollony boilies with some broken in half.  I dropped some at other end of the raft, so they drifted down stream towards my hook bait.  The plan worked!

Not bad for an evening Barbel fishing.

This was my first Hampshire Avon Carp,  I am over the moon eben though it only weighed 13-7.  This was all that I had.

Till next time
Richard