stevetheangler

Monday, 25th July 2016, at 0745 found me on one of my club’s stretches of the River Severn (HL) for a short, 5 hour, session of chub fishing. Unusually I’m fishing a Monday rather than my usual Tuesday due to having an appointment with the dentist on the Tuesday – and hence the shorter session than usual was necessitated by the need to collect Liz from work when she finished at 1500.

So I had my intended swim – just upstream of an overhanging willow bush…

…. and mixed up a bucket of bread mash/slop consisting of three full loaves of sliced bread pulped up to the consistency of thin porridge … and the first three handfuls were consigned to the current to drift down to the outer parts of the willow bush whilst I set up tackle for the day … a simple/basic setup consisting of an 11′ quiver tip rod, 8lb line straight through to a size 4 hook and a link ledger (6″ nylon link on a run ring with two SSG shot, one at the end of the link, the other midway along) stopped about 2′-3′ from the hook. The link ledger weighting was selected so that it was just about enough to be drifted with the canopy of the bush by the current…. main bait throughout the session was bread flake to match the ‘feed’ but I did also try cheesepaste….

So, throughout the session, the feed mash was fed frequently ‘down the line’ to keep a line of feed drifting down on the current and to attract fish into what really amounted to being a ‘Mr Crabtree’ sterotypical chub hold anyway….

However, sad to report, the session was a complete blank … the only ‘action’ being a possible small number (<=5) of tiny tweaks of the tip most likely due to small silver fish worrying the bait and pulling it apart … although if foul hooked fish are counted I did actually save the blank by finding a small 1″ fry fish impaled through its dorsal fin on one retrieve…