Steve Arnold
Well-known member
October started here with plenty of rain! Tail end of storm Alex and our usually fine autumn weather was brought to an abrupt halt, it was like being back in Scotland!
Anyway the storm finally moved on and after a week the river settled to a healthy level and we got back to fishing. Two different swims this last week and some good fishing for chub, bream and barbel.
Fishing buddy Alistair had a couple of good chub at our "garden swim" and I had a couple slightly smaller and a few barbel all around 4 lb.
Today I fished with another friend along the river a few miles, a nice easy access swim in Cajarc which I felt would hold bream.
It's deep and wide here and usually slow flowing, but no bream - but more barbel!
Between us we had four between 4 lbs and 7.6 lb. The best gave a cracking account of itself and went around that buoy in the first photo. Fortunately it went out again and back upstream without the line fraying!
So, October is working out for us and still only half-way through! If there are no more storms it could be a wonderful month!
Anyway the storm finally moved on and after a week the river settled to a healthy level and we got back to fishing. Two different swims this last week and some good fishing for chub, bream and barbel.
Fishing buddy Alistair had a couple of good chub at our "garden swim" and I had a couple slightly smaller and a few barbel all around 4 lb.
Today I fished with another friend along the river a few miles, a nice easy access swim in Cajarc which I felt would hold bream.
It's deep and wide here and usually slow flowing, but no bream - but more barbel!
Between us we had four between 4 lbs and 7.6 lb. The best gave a cracking account of itself and went around that buoy in the first photo. Fortunately it went out again and back upstream without the line fraying!
So, October is working out for us and still only half-way through! If there are no more storms it could be a wonderful month!