Section of Fishery or river stretch:...Above Preston
Date:...09/11/08
Time fished:...13:00hrs to 23:00hrs
Weather conditions:...Wild wet and very windy.
Water conditions:...Rivercall at 03:15hrs @ NJR 0.13M ANSL and steady.
Air temperature:...12C dropping to 7C.
Water Temperature:...9C
Bait:...Bread flake, crust/cheese paste, and Halibut Pellets.
Method:..2 rods, upstream rod bread flake or crust/cheese paste with liquidised bread,  and micro pellets in the feeder, downstream rod Halibut Pellet and PVA bags of Micro Pellets.
Results:...5 Chub 2 over 4lb best being 5lb
Brief description of the session & remarks:...This was a horrible session comfort wise, wild wet and windy and with plenty of big fire works going off it was like fishing in a battle zone.  I nearly ended up in the river a couple of times just as I was netting a fish,  the wind was very blustery and it caught me off balance a couple of times.  Specimen landing nets are a real handful in these conditions especially in the dark. The night beasties in the woods were also a bit restless and by 11-o-clock, I'd had enough.

Section of Fishery or river stretch:...Above Preston
Date:...14/11/08
Time fished:...18:30hrs to 24:00hrs
Weather conditions:...Overcast with light breeze turning windy by end of session, big moon just going off full popping in and out of clouds.
Water conditions:...Rivercall at 03:40hrs @ NJR 0.44M ANSL and rising, staedy around 0.4to 0.5M through out session.
Air temperature:...12C only dropping to 11.7C at end of session.
Water Temperature:...10.3C
Bait:...Bread flake, crust/cheese paste, and Sweetcorn.
Method:..2 rods, upstream rod bread flake or crust/cheese paste with liquidised bread and micro pellets in the feeder, downstream rod Sweetcorn with sweetcorn and scalded ewe nuts in feeder.
Results:...4 Chub best being 4lb-14oz plus 2 Barbel best being 11lb-14oz
Brief description of the session & remarks:..Good session with river slowly falling but loads of dead laves coming down had to recast every 15 mins.  I was expecting the odd barbel to show and the big one did after only 20 min of stating the session.  I nearly lost my rod, and yes I was watching it, it flew out of my butt rod rest and the reel jammed in my front rod rest just long enough for me to dive after it.  Re set my bait runners on both rods, nearly every bit was like the first one and even the big chub took the rod out of the butt rest before the bait runner kicked in.  This was on the edge of your seat fishing, no dozing on this session, the big barbel was just 2oz below my PB.  I'm not the weakest of 60 year olds but I was struggling to hold my specimen landing net in the flow of the river but at least there was no strong gusts of wind to tip me in, I didn't fancy swimming about in Preston docks! Nice walk back to my van in the moonlight even though I did end up on my backside a couple of times, still a bit slippy under foot.