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Sunday, 25 January 2015

Another night time chub session

With snow melt in the river (albeit fining down) my initial thoughts were "not much chance here". To better the odds, I decided to fish at night, 7pm to 10pm, with smelly baits. The swim produced my 5lb chub the previous week so I was still confident of catching. 

Not being shy, I fished a 1.75lb Avon with 12lb line (no point in fishing light when it's dark and id rather bully them on past unforeseen snags). After a couple of casts without success, I was just about to rebait with I got a twitch on the rod, I call it the 10 second warning signal. You can almost guarantee a chub will tap the rod round shortly after, and it did, a pleasing 3lb 6oz


Two casts later, and within seconds of the feeder hitting the deck, the rod twitch a few times. Clearly a chub knocking bait out the feeder and it was a short wait for the next rap round, this time at 3lb 8oz.


This was very quickly followed by a chub of 3lb 1oz....




No more fish followed, but I was happy with that. A mouse spent the evening by my side each the grass! 

Happy days 

4 comments:

  1. 10lbs in about 10 minutes then! Can't be bad James

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    1. As often happens with chub, the bites ceased as quickly as they came! What I probably should have done is moved downstream to see if the shoal had backed off, but with it being dark I was comfortable just sitting there

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  2. Good effort. Probably a good idea to sit tight, last thing you want to do is go in during the night.

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    1. Couldn't agree more lee. Treacherous those river banks on a winter night, certainly pays to know the stretch well

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