MarkW
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I went to the Stour today with the intention of doing some videoing but a lot of building construction noise and a lack of swims for the type of fishing i intended - fishing a stick float - plus an awkward wind put paid to that. I ended up fishing a little waggler very shallow with tares and it was tough going for a long time. A shoal of big fish (chub?) was slightly upstream just under the surface. I started with some small roach and dace, fish of a couple of ounces and the wind which sometimes skimmed downriver made life tricky as did the weed. I set up an underwater camera and put it running in what should be the next swim down river although it's too weedy at present.
After a while I hooked a bigger fish and lost it, then hooked a big roach which broke me in the weed, all the while experimenting with different hooks and hooklinks (tried fluoro and copolymer), then finally got a decent roach of around 12oz, followed by this one of 1-2 (it flicked a lump of slime onto the lens hence the blur). Gradually some of the bigger fish took an interest in the loose-fed hemp and I caught a couple of the smaller ones, bream of 3-4 and 4-8 (the biggest one looked around 8lb) before it was time to pack up after three and a half hours. Note to self - make sure you've got a waggler rod as I fished my Allerton stick float rod. The video footage was filming in the jungle but some good roach and a glimpse of a big bream.
After a while I hooked a bigger fish and lost it, then hooked a big roach which broke me in the weed, all the while experimenting with different hooks and hooklinks (tried fluoro and copolymer), then finally got a decent roach of around 12oz, followed by this one of 1-2 (it flicked a lump of slime onto the lens hence the blur). Gradually some of the bigger fish took an interest in the loose-fed hemp and I caught a couple of the smaller ones, bream of 3-4 and 4-8 (the biggest one looked around 8lb) before it was time to pack up after three and a half hours. Note to self - make sure you've got a waggler rod as I fished my Allerton stick float rod. The video footage was filming in the jungle but some good roach and a glimpse of a big bream.