River Frome 16-08-12

With everything settling down at home

I popped down to

the Frome.

Started fishing around 9am

in a swim I've not

fished before.

The water had a good pace

but quite coloured after yesterdays rain.

After 20 or so runs down the swim

with a Crow Quill Avon float,

size 18 micro barbed hook on 2lb line

to 5lb main line.

I caught this Gudgeon on 

double red maggot.

Not seen one in a while.

 Also managed a 

small Dace.

I fed a dozen or so maggots at least every

run through the swim.

This was my second swim 

but it failed to produced.

It was getting dark now 

as can be seen

with this photo

of a small dace from swim 3.

This was a harder swim to fish

with plenty of over hanging

trees.

 The fourth swim had a longer

run plus the over hanging

branches on the far bank.

Once again I could not 

tempt the fish out of this swim.

 Really expected to catch some thing

from here

as I've seen some good

fish in the past.

I moved on to what proved to be my last swim.

Same tactics were the same.

However the the smaller Roach, Dace

Gudgeon and Minnows

were out to play here.

BUT!!!!!!!

After catching 10 fish

in quick succession

the heavens opened

and it ended up more

like autumn!

As a usual when it rains that hard

the river started pushing hard and there 

was loads of leaves, branches

as well as other rubbish.

I could not get the float to run through properly

so packed up

and paddled back to car.