flightliner
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Earlier in the year there was much said about the autumn monthes for its traditional good river roach fishing. Has/is yours living up to expectations to date or is it proving to be dissapointing?
All the best with the match, is it on a stillwater or river? The guy with the big two pound plus roach taken on the ribble (was it?)made my mouth water. Hens teeth come to mind!Had plenty of roach but only to a pound. Hoping for plenty tomorrow but that's cos it's in a match.
Good God! I never thought I would here the day when a river like the Stour would be so bereft of a thing like a half decent roach Mark.The match was tad hard and on the tidal Dorset Stour. I had 220 fish for 1-12 including a nice perch. worth the effort cos we won the team event overall but the roach were very scarce and tiny. 220? 200 minnows plus tiny roach, dace and bleak and the perch who probably thought he'd gone to heaven inside my keepnet.
Looks like yours and my catches are pretty similar, I had a big float caught chub a week or so ago .---Just wish the Thames wasn't a 190 mile round trip ( the Trent is 400 mile round trip) as that is a favourite roach venue, Had 14lb of roach the other week plus a big chub.
The match was tad hard and on the tidal Dorset Stour. I had 220 fish for 1-12 including a nice perch. worth the effort cos we won the team event overall but the roach were very scarce and tiny. 220? 200 minnows plus tiny roach, dace and bleak and the perch who probably thought he'd gone to heaven inside my keepnet.