not a fishing report
Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 2:39 pm
Evenin all, our river season opens in a few weeks, so today I went to do a “work party” on a stretch of river that belongs to a small syndicate I am a member of.
Our work party normally consists of a good clean up of any litter that may have been left by the winter floods, plus a bit of general maintenance here and there.
I arrived around 09:30, one of the lads was already there and had the kettle on(damn fine chap indeed), whilst we chatted and waited for the others over a cup of tea and biscuits, we had a quick look at the river next to the caravan we have there.
there was a shoal of rather nice sized chub just sitting there, gently swaying in the flow, despite us standing and casting a shadow, they did not seem bothered, they just stayed there letting us watch them.(when the season opens you can bet your ass they will be nowhere around)
The chub were just under the overhanging tree in 2½ft of water.
The others arrived for 10:00, and after another cup of tea, we walked the river.
We picked up litter as we went, we fixed a couple of fences, we fish spotted as we walked/worked.
Plenty of fish were seen, mostly chub, we did see a pike sitting close to the near bank, waiting for its next meal to pass it by.
After a few hours, we headed back to the caravan for a tea break, we chatted about this that and the other whilst we continued to eat johns choccy biscuits, dunked in the tea of course.
One of the lads had made some old fashioned floats/bobbers for us (modern day floats are made of plastic)
And rather nice they are, cant wait to try em out.
It started raining so we decided to call it quits for today.
With one last look at the river until we can actually fish it (june 16th) we headed off.
yup, was a hard day indeed.
ray.
Our work party normally consists of a good clean up of any litter that may have been left by the winter floods, plus a bit of general maintenance here and there.
I arrived around 09:30, one of the lads was already there and had the kettle on(damn fine chap indeed), whilst we chatted and waited for the others over a cup of tea and biscuits, we had a quick look at the river next to the caravan we have there.
there was a shoal of rather nice sized chub just sitting there, gently swaying in the flow, despite us standing and casting a shadow, they did not seem bothered, they just stayed there letting us watch them.(when the season opens you can bet your ass they will be nowhere around)
The chub were just under the overhanging tree in 2½ft of water.
The others arrived for 10:00, and after another cup of tea, we walked the river.
We picked up litter as we went, we fixed a couple of fences, we fish spotted as we walked/worked.
Plenty of fish were seen, mostly chub, we did see a pike sitting close to the near bank, waiting for its next meal to pass it by.
After a few hours, we headed back to the caravan for a tea break, we chatted about this that and the other whilst we continued to eat johns choccy biscuits, dunked in the tea of course.
One of the lads had made some old fashioned floats/bobbers for us (modern day floats are made of plastic)
And rather nice they are, cant wait to try em out.
It started raining so we decided to call it quits for today.
With one last look at the river until we can actually fish it (june 16th) we headed off.
yup, was a hard day indeed.
ray.
When are you coming back over here to catch real fish with real men (and me) ?