Having the day to ourselves come Friday
we headed back to the productive barbel stretch, only to find the
surface covered with floating weed. The good news was the river had
risen a few inches and was carrying some colour, yet our problem was
keeping a bait in the water long enough for a barbel to find it.
Chris dropped into the swim that had improved as the week progressed
and took two early barbel and a chub, yet my efforts upstream went
without incident. You have to keep you’re wits about you when
holding the rod high in the sky as every now and then swans come into
land. A quick cast in Chris’s swim produced a Wye best for me, yet
further casts just saw the lines getting dragged out of position. We
decided to have an hour in the bottom swim, yet this was also proving
to be difficult with Chris taking one more barbel before we
surrendered to the conditions and headed home early afternoon.
Guided barbel sessions for 2014.
I’m thinking of doing something
slightly different next year and instead of the week away I’m going
to offer two days fishing with accommodation also included. Its early
days yet but these trips will probably start in July and run through
to October. In total I will have six of these trips available so if
you are interested then please let me know and as soon as I have more
details then you will be the first to know.
Email – duncancharman@icloud.com
Mobile – 07928 617006
Home – 01252 315271
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