Mark Wintle
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Since New Year's day I've had ten river sessions mostly on the float and always using bread, maggots or casters as bait. Despite plenty of chub, roach, grayling, even a slab bream I've only had a total of four dace. 30 years ago I would average 50 dace a session this timeof year, and spent years trying to discover ways to catch the roach whilst avoiding the dace.
Have the cormorants polished most of them off, or is it a general decline? I know there are some left in places that I haven't been near lately but yesterday on the upper Stour I would have expected a few from the swims I fished unless they are all spawning somewhere?
I had a few back in the summer but it has mostly been devoid of them.
Have the cormorants polished most of them off, or is it a general decline? I know there are some left in places that I haven't been near lately but yesterday on the upper Stour I would have expected a few from the swims I fished unless they are all spawning somewhere?
I had a few back in the summer but it has mostly been devoid of them.