hard days fishing

[caelan]

tanglers
went up to fish the trent sunday 200mile round trip 8 anglers in total 1 bream
to show for all the hard work not a single twitch from a barbel now I am reading the trent is not as good as it use to be see plenty of cormorants on there?

 

[john step]

Its not the cormorants affecting the barbel, its more the low flow/lack of rain.

 

[Tee-Cee]

Caelan.................was late August the best time to go with most rivers out of sorts due to lack of rain and high temperatures ??

Just a thought and maybe you had no option............

Hell of a trip for one bream, of all things !

 

[binka]

Its not the cormorants affecting the barbel, its more the low flow/lack of rain.

Totally agree.

Hard to believe that the first day of the new season saw the non-tidal river seven feet up in places, it also had a knock on effect and delayed the spawning until very recently in some parts.

It's been a weird one so far with the barbel, several of the regular "baggers" have reported that they are struggling to find fish.

I had a very rude opening fortnight and felt barbelled out which was a gooid thing as I've concentrated on the perch instead and hit the barbel in between when conditions came good, something you can't do very easily with a pre-arranged trip.

Given temperature and rainfall patterns over recent years I reckon it will be knocking on November before they really get their heads down at this rate.

 

[tigger]

Totally agree.

Hard to believe that the first day of the new season saw the non-tidal river seven feet up in places, it also had a knock on effect and delayed the spawning until very recently in some parts..

Funny you should say that Steve, only last week there was a small shoal of pin heads around my feet, they must have only been free swimming for a few hours !

 

[S-Kippy]

Maybe the Wey is not as hard as I thought ?