Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service

1st of July Bristol Avon another good barbel

First a joke?

I had a Trivia competition shot to pieces I was first until the last question which I got wrong. The question was “Where do women have the curliest hair”??
The answer I should have given was “ Fiji ”

I arrived at the same swim I fished on Wednesday. I didn’t get there earlier and only arrived at 7am. There was one other angler there who went upstream to fish. I feed with hemp and sat back to see who was at home….a few small barbel came to feast.

I didn’t see any others of a large size. The day was going to be hot and sunny and it didn’t fail, luckily I was stationed under a tree which offered some shade.

As normal the fish were in the snag but came out to feed slightly upstream and then under my feet where I had put some hemp.

I was fishing pellets again with a small PVA mesh bag of mixed sized ones and a short hooklink.

I waited until mid morning before I saw a couple of larger fish and was prepared to wait for another 1 hour before moving on. Sure enough at about 12.30 I got a take from a fish under my feet in the cabbages. The clutch was set tight and the fish just cut through the cabbages on the tight line. I really like to see these cabbages float downstream in the flow as you play a big barbel. Finally I saw the fish which I thought was about 7lbs and then soon it was in the landing net. Mark another angler further downstream saw me catch the fish. I had met him on the previous visit. I rested the fish in a sack while I set up the weighing equipment. On the scales she went 8lbs 4oz and again quite thin after spawning.

I took a quick video of the fish.

 

 

 
Mark came to see me just as I was returning the fish. He hadn’t fished for barbel much and bought most of his rigs and so on. I then spent the next 45 mins or so showing him my rigs and showed him how to tie the rigs and knots……..all this for free. Seriously I don’t mind showing people knots and rigs, it’s the swim and the knowledge that is important. The feeding also plays an important part.
Mark asked to sit and watch for a while which he did, and soon we were watching some doubles swimming over the bait. Soon the rod bounced around and a roach of about 1lb was the culprit. I didn’t weigh it and Mark said it was the largest he had seen.
We were then bailiffed which was good. It was by another coach for the area. We had a good chat and reminisced about our training.
Mark then had to leave and I carried on fishing. Sure enough those large barbel returned and they were right under my feet. The rod top nodded a few times and then it was away……….how do those roach do this.
I had another roach of about 1lb. This would spoil the swim for an hour or so.
I’m doing some work further downstream this week for two days so I need to do some ground work, so I left a bit frustrated.

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