Post by Eddie on Aug 24, 2015 21:35:14 GMT
Another evening session tonight and the wharfe was up and chocolate brown, so I did a bit of walking to find a swim with some slack water down the inside, I eventually found one that fitted the bill and settled in.
After running out of garlic spam I decided to do Ronnie's trick of sprinkling garlic granules on plain spam and freezing it, boy do you end up with a pungent bait! But that's ideal with these river conditions. So both rods were cast to the edge of the fast water, maybe a couple of rod lengths out.
15 minutes later and the left hand rod is away and after an extraordinary fight in the dark brown water the barbel actually swam into the landing net! Never had a barbel do that before!!
A nice 5lber and a great start.
From then on I was getting plenty of knocks and having the bait stolen regularly. So after a bit of a rethink I retackled one rod to fish boilie with the obligatory pva bag of pellets etc. The taps on the rod ends continue and I am blaming chub, when the meat rod is away again!
After a good scrap another fish of almost exactly the same weight as the first graces the bank. Great session considering the conditions!
Anyway by now it's starting to get a little dark, so I begin to pack away, I leave the rods and landing net till last, I never seem to get the last gasp fish, that all the best fishing stories have. Hang on isn't that the baitrunner going! I turn round and the boilie rod is finally away and a solid fight develops, this feels like a better fish!
On the bank and I scrabble around to get the kit back out that I need to weigh the fish 8lb nice! You will have to forgive the photo, not the usual standard lol, bit of a last minute job!
At least I got the fishes head in the photo!
Eddie.
