Tag Barbel

A change of mind

Attempt 1 – Middle lane I headed to peg 27 on middle lane in the hope of getting into the river (on my box) and fishing the stick/bolo in deeper water with the hope of some Roach. I noticed, from the cow-pats, that the cows were roaming the bank so I would need to hide all of my stuff (powered…

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Brace of Barbel

Back on peg 13 I decided to try an evening on peg 13, fishing with my seat-box mid-river in the hope that the big fish might like that faster water. I was fishing for about 6:30pm and had out two rods. One concentrating on Chub using bread or cheese-paste and the other on luncheon meat. An early take At around…

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New River Season

Outlook I have been looking forward to getting back on the river, especially now that my powered wheel kit has arrived for my trolley. As usual the water is running low and clear because of a lack of rain recently. Opening day was forecast to be a scorcher so I didn’t have great expectations. The plan I planned to fish…

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Great start & end

My plan I arrived at peg 5 about 3:30pm. My plan was as follows: – Plumb the depth along the downstream tree using my pole. Feed up mid-river with a groundbait of fishmeal, hemp, broken Scopex boilies. Feed up under the tree with a mix of liquidised bread, hemp, crushed Scopex boilies and micro meat cubes (2mm-ish). Whilst the fish…

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New River Season – first week

Opening day – a scorcher! We had a very hot week prior to the season starting. This continued into opening day. Opening day was my first chance to test out my seatbox, loading it and pushing it to the peg. Then getting it down the river bank to the riverside. 3 days – 3 pegs I had taken a couple…

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