I have bought a license for the stretch of river at Passenham this year. It looks like a fairly under-fished stretch of river, but I like the look of it and would like to put some work in on a water this year. In my old birdwatching days I had a ‘local patch’ - a local area that I visited regularly and got to know well over the course of the year. I am going to apply a similar tactic to the river here and try and get to know it well over the coming season. By all accounts there is a good head of fish in the stretch - chub, roach, perch and the odd barbel and carp - so I am hopeful of a good season. Chub and roach are my main target, and I know there are some good sized specimens of each in the river so they could well turn up in this stretch.
I had a brief luring session there on Saturday which turned up nothing, but a good float session on Monday evening, catching some small chub, roach, and (I think) dace. I’m hoping to get a good handle on the river here and to get into some of the bigger fish as soon as I can. It will be a while before I get back into the swing of float fishing after a rather long break, but it’s such a welcome change to be getting into the fish that I am happy with the smaller fish I’m catching now.
At the moment the luring is on hold while I concentrate on float fishing and I hope to post up some good catch results soon. I’m taking the camera with me next time so I’ll start to put up some pictures of the swims as I work my way through them.