Another trip to Limply Stoke, 23-06-15

Another day with time out,

so back to Limply.

Today I arrived early and set up and fed my usual swim.

 Then I walked along the bank checking out possible new swims,

ones that looked like they may

be worth a cast or two were fed

with hemp and corn plus my pellet mix.

Then it was back to my chosen swim,

I used my normal mix of pellet and doilies,

as well as sweet corn and worm.

Well the Chub were sun bathing and not interested

in any of my offerings.

Then the first of five canoes

cam by. Straight over where my baits were. 

 So leaving one ledger rod out

I set up the float rod 

with instant success.

These little Chub were really

hungry for chopped worm,

as were some small Trout.

 Can you spot the two

hot air balloons?

These drifted sedately over

from west to east.   

Well the fishing was poor the river

was low, slow and very clear. 

The Chub I saw were on the surface

and not interested in feeding.

16-06-15 Open day on the rivers.

Yahoo!

Car loaded and on the road by 1.00pm.

At Limply Stoke, at 2.00pm, I had my second choice of swim

below the weir.

Low clear and slow 

was the order of the day,

with bright sunshine and light down stream breeze.

 Well that was a poor choice as it turned out

lovely setting but a hook killer.

I used up 10 hooks in total, out of

around 20 casts.

The river bottom must have had

a lot of rocks and stones

which blunted the hooks.

So at 4.45pm I decided to move around a mile down stream.

Here there was a continuous hatch of various 

midges and other aquatic winged bugs.

So settling in for the evening, I cast one rod to the far bank 

and the other down the near side bank. 

 So with no signs of fishy movements

I was surprised when the near bank rod pulled round slowly.

This produced a 3lb perfect Chub, quite

plump compared to the the early season

Chub last year. 

 At around 10 to 8 the far bank rod

bent round and the bait runner reel

peeled off a load of line.

This 4lb 1oz Chub had signs that it had already

been caught or spawning damage.

 Whilst I was sorting the Chub

my other rod started nodding.

This produced this little Brown Trout

on pellet and worm cocktail.

 Then around 10 to nine

this 2lb 15oz Chub took a liking to

a boillie on the far bank.

That was the end of the fishy business for the evening.

However the wild life was great.

With a Mink grabbing a duckling

and the Mum pecked it a couple of times,

the Mink dropped the duckling

and ran off.

Mum swam off with her three little ducklings safe for now.

A Wren flew across the river with 3 little ones following,

they are tiny. 

Plus the usual Kingfishers, Buzzards and many other birds 

it was a great start to the 2015 / 2016 river season.

Tuesday 16-06015

I WILL BE OUT ON THE AVON.

BUT I have not made up my mind yet.

Christian Malford

Lackock

or

Limply Stoke?

HHHHHHHMMMMMMMM!