jollyboy
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After a hard time on local rivers we decided to do a wreaky down and have a look at the Trent...we did take the gear in the end just in case.
We headed toward Collingham and the legendary day ticket water...starting off up by the weir and peg 1...... I was gobsmacked....the place was packed.... all the way to the weir to our left and as far as you could see to the bend to our right No one was alive at that time and seemed tucked away in the city of Bevvy's.
We left there and went to the gravel conveyor...it was pretty much the same there too maybe not so packed but the river didn't seem so featureless...Going from there right down the bottom end toward the "Wall" the main pegs there were taken and after having a chat with a few chaps decided to head up river a little with the gear to the bend and some deeper water (the tide had started dropping about a hour by then)
My son only started fishing last year and has had some good days on Carp pleasure fishing but this session he wanted to catch a Barbel... we have spent a bit of time on the Swale,Wharffe and Nidd with no success for the lad for all his efforts.
Anyhow he was in the peg below me...while I had gone for the cluster of caster Pad opted for meat..... both over feeder fed caster and hemp bed.
Pad's first cast of the morning resulted in a wrap around bite with nothing to show mean while I was getting knocks on the caster from what looked like bits... Next thing I heard was Pad was bent into a fish on his second cast...Reeled in myself and went over to take a look...three times he bought the fish to the bank but it was the forth attempt that see him slip the net under his first ever Barbel...as you could imagine I was as made up for my son after all his efforts... although not a big fish by anyone standards it was nice fish all the same (didn't have scales...what do you reckon 6lb ?)
I changed over to meat myself ..... next 4 hours produced nothing although we both had a few knocks... I did switch back to the caster on a lighter setup do find out what the earlier bites were.... took half dozen or so good size dace every cast.
We called it a day all be it a short one.... to go right down to Dunham bridge and have a look down there.
I need to find a site for the tide tables for the area as the Collingham AC side is a month behind. We will be going down again next time for a days fishing.....all in all we had a great day and a few jobs done
We headed toward Collingham and the legendary day ticket water...starting off up by the weir and peg 1...... I was gobsmacked....the place was packed.... all the way to the weir to our left and as far as you could see to the bend to our right No one was alive at that time and seemed tucked away in the city of Bevvy's.
We left there and went to the gravel conveyor...it was pretty much the same there too maybe not so packed but the river didn't seem so featureless...Going from there right down the bottom end toward the "Wall" the main pegs there were taken and after having a chat with a few chaps decided to head up river a little with the gear to the bend and some deeper water (the tide had started dropping about a hour by then)
My son only started fishing last year and has had some good days on Carp pleasure fishing but this session he wanted to catch a Barbel... we have spent a bit of time on the Swale,Wharffe and Nidd with no success for the lad for all his efforts.
Anyhow he was in the peg below me...while I had gone for the cluster of caster Pad opted for meat..... both over feeder fed caster and hemp bed.
Pad's first cast of the morning resulted in a wrap around bite with nothing to show mean while I was getting knocks on the caster from what looked like bits... Next thing I heard was Pad was bent into a fish on his second cast...Reeled in myself and went over to take a look...three times he bought the fish to the bank but it was the forth attempt that see him slip the net under his first ever Barbel...as you could imagine I was as made up for my son after all his efforts... although not a big fish by anyone standards it was nice fish all the same (didn't have scales...what do you reckon 6lb ?)
I changed over to meat myself ..... next 4 hours produced nothing although we both had a few knocks... I did switch back to the caster on a lighter setup do find out what the earlier bites were.... took half dozen or so good size dace every cast.
We called it a day all be it a short one.... to go right down to Dunham bridge and have a look down there.
I need to find a site for the tide tables for the area as the Collingham AC side is a month behind. We will be going down again next time for a days fishing.....all in all we had a great day and a few jobs done
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