Painful knee and and a Snotty. 29-07-20

Decided to try out Lilstock for the first time.

Boy those large shingle rocks are a proper pain in the knee.

Arrived down there at 05.30,

my knee started complaining straight away as expected.

Haven't any idea what this about, so I will look it up at some stage.

I haven't a clue about this either, plus plenty

other man made structures.

As for the fishing, I started at 06.00 to the right of this structure.

I used Rag, Lug, Squid, Mackerel and Crab.

I had 3/0 and 1/0 pennel pulley rigs and size 1 Wishbone rigs. 

Well with only one small rattle on the Wishbone rig,

my knee complaining like made, I packed up at 09.00.

I headed to Ladye Bay, Clevedon, for the high tide.

Using the same rigs and baits,

I fished from 11.00 till 15.00.

High tide was at  14.50.

I had run out of Bait.

About 13.20 I had a rattle on the Wishbone rig,

this  Green Eel tangled it's self around the rig.

With all the reports being so poor

along the Bristol Channel at the moment,

I think I'll head to the Bristol Avon next trip.

Afternoon and evening up Lacock. 19-07-20

Back up to try to catch Chub or Barbel.

I headed down stream in the hope it 

hadn't been fished for a while.

The first swim was a tight one,

surrounded by fallen trees and branches.

I used the Center Pin real,

hoping to get more practice

with casting accurately.

Well I had plenty of practice 

but no interest at all.

I moved about 20 meters up stream,

but after 3 rigs lost I decided to

move on to another swim.

This one I knew was clear of snags.

I tried to get the fish to come out

of the reeds which covered 

about 3/4 of the river width.

It is surrounded by trees which

gave it plenty of shade from the sun.

Once again no knock, taps or tip

pull rounds.

So after an other hour passed

I moved on.

Another fallen tree swim

and again no rod tip movement was seen.

There were plenty of birds moving about,

including Swans, Kingfishers, Wren,s Swifts,

Chaffinch and plenty more.

So on to swim five,

This one is usually  banker for

a fish or two.

More fallen and overhanging trees

but again no interest.

Another move to the final swim.

Here I did manage a few tip taps

and knocks 

but nothing in the net.

By now the the bats were having a great

time feeding on the hatching winged bugs,

the Tawny Owls were also very vocal so it was time

to head home and admit defeat.

Back to the Bristol Avon. 14-07-20

Yesterday it was back to the Avon.

Half a bucket of pellet, sweetcorn and hemp

plus loaded pellet stockings and PVA stockings,

were my freebee offering.

I chose a swim I had not fished before,

I managed 4 Chub in the first hour

 They weighed betweem

1lb 13 1/2oz 

and 

12lb 8ozs.

 Then there was a large hatch

of varying insects from the river.

This happened at the same time 

as the bites stopped.

I moved to two more swims

without any signs of fish feeding,

so I moved to a new swim

that I believed holds Barbel.

Well it did, but I

dropped it as the hook pulled.

Never mind,

it is really satisfying to do

a bit of leg work and find the fish.

The count so far, 2020 / 2021 season.

Two of the 30 Chub caught on the River Avon 

from 16 June 2020 to the 4 July 2020.

Best was 4lb 14oz.

I managed to get 10 Chub on 1 July 2020

 

 and 8 on 4-July 2020.

Back to the Bristol Avon 2020

Spent a couple of mornings by the Avon before 

the new season opened.

Saw Barbel and Chub 

as well as plenty of birds and other wild life.

 I was also checking out the

various swims for weed growth

and snags. 

All the usual swims were as expected,

but also a few new ones were also seen.

The river was low and slow as expected 

so plenty of fish were seen.