THE BEST FISH YOU’VE LANDED THIS WEEK
“I WENT fishing for an hour after work on my local River Wear. It was dropping and full of colour, but I’d had a run of half-a-dozen blanks in the lead up to the session.
I hoped that, with a bit of extra colour, I’d stand a better chance of a bite, which are hard to come by here at the best of times. “First cast, I had a fish of 5lb 4oz, and my next two casts resulted in a missed bite and a lost fish. I moved 15 yards upstream to the other side of the bush I’d been targeting. There was a big back eddy here, into which I cast a 45g cage feeder packed with liquidised bread. A big lump of flake on a size 6 was my hookbait.
“Five minutes after paying out a bow in the line to hold bottom, I was into a better fish which was soon in the net. At 6lb 4oz it’s a PB for the Wear. I was made up!”
“AFTER the floods I visited my local Great Ouse and caught two chub around the 5lb mark on breadflake.
“Next, I headed to a different stretch run by Luton AC, where I had a smaller fish of around 2lb. Things went quiet after that, so I set up a perch rod with 4lb line and a 2AA link leger.
“After feeding four balls of groundbait laced with maggots and chopped worm I dropped a lobworm under my feet into 8ft of water. “Seconds later the tip pulled round, and I hooked a fish that bolted to the far bank. I soon realised it was a big chub and, at 6lb 9oz, it was a lovely one at that.”
“THE other day I had a grayling session that was very tough going. The fish were playing hide and seek, but by investigating some new areas, I managed specimens of 2lb 3oz and 2lb 2oz right at the end of the day.
“The second one I spotted as I waked down a sodden bank. It bolted from the nearside cover over to darker, deeper water, and I walked downstream and got in below it.
“Casting was tricky, but after edging my way upstream I managed to hook i
