I've gotten back into some river fishing over the summer while home from university. I fish my local river Alt in Formby, Liverpool. It's a hard river to fish with no real pegs. It also suffered from a massive ongoing pollution incident 15 or so years ago.
Whenever I fish when the river is what I call 'normal' (after about 2 or so days without heavy rain), I non stop catch roach, chub and dace all day. However, when there has been some rain and the river is fast and high I regularly blank. Is this normal in these conditions? Also, how should I seek out bigger chub in a shallow(ish) river that has a bed of almost endless weed?
Whenever I fish when the river is what I call 'normal' (after about 2 or so days without heavy rain), I non stop catch roach, chub and dace all day. However, when there has been some rain and the river is fast and high I regularly blank. Is this normal in these conditions? Also, how should I seek out bigger chub in a shallow(ish) river that has a bed of almost endless weed?