Tag Ure – Cricket Field

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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Big fish lost

9.9M & steady Today’s Plan My plan was to fish the morning in a likely Perch peg (peg 5) and then the afternoon/evening in peg 6 where I had been catching Chub recently. The last time I fished peg 5, there were some fresh shoots from the downstream tree that really hampered fishing close in to the tree where the…

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Oh so close

9.91M and steady So, another short session after work. Again I am in peg 6 and the level has now fallen enough to expose the normal fishing peg. It was still a bit slippery getting down to it but I quickly settled in and was fishing by 3:40. A long wait for a bite As planned, I fished a small…

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