A Tale of Two Saturday's

So last Saturday the weather was glorious again and I couldn't wait to get to the river for a barbel session.When I set of it was lovely but as I neared the river the weather changed and it was now spitting and I thought it would clear up.Once I'd parked up it was now heavy drizzle with a driving wind and unfortunately for me I hadn't got any waterproofs or an umbrella ,so basically I was screwed and retreated to the van and give it an hour to see if it cleared up.It got worse and I decided it was time to go home,Gutted.............

Anyway roll on last night ,another glorious day and with no rain forecast I headed to the river knowing it was gonna be a lovely evening.I loaded the barrow and went on the long walk down river to a swim I hoped was free,only saw one angler and had the swim I wanted.Tactics this session would be feeders on both rods,Pellet and Boilie Hook baits.My feeder mix was the usual crushed halibut pellets,crushed boilie and Hemp and a Good splash of MC Glug.I decided to put 6 feeder fully over two spots,rest the swim and have a coffee then start fishing .I cast both rods out on the spots and sat back taking in all the wildlife and scenery of a low river.It wasn't long before a huge snatch on the boilie rod which was probably a chub.I reeled in now bait.This happened twice and I changed to a short hair.I was getting twitches on my right hand rod too.

The Ducks were hungry tonite but where were the hungry barbel.I kept casting every 25 minutes and before it went dark I changed hookbaits to fresh and cast out for the last time as it was nearly dark.

It was getting dark now and what an awesome red sky.At 10-15 pm my right hand rod hooped over and my clutch was going into meltdown as I played a strong pulling barbel.At the second attempt I netted my prize.I reeled in my left hand rod as I was resting the barbel and wanted to take pictures.

First of the night,a long Barbel at 7.5...........

I rebated both rods and cast out,coffee time and take a breather.It was slow going still,a few taps but nothing really was happening.The temp was dropping now and mist was drifting down the river and the moon was so bright in the distance.

Not a great shot of the moon,no need for isotopes in that glow.At around 11-25 pm my left hand rod hooped over and another awesome fight of these fantastic Barbel,plenty of clutch action and I was thinking it could be a double.I waded out and netted my second barbel of the night.

A nice chunk Barbel,went 8 on the dot.A pleasing session that made up for last weeks nightmare with the bad weather.Nothing came after this barbel ,so I headed back on the long walk very happy catching two barbel.

Till the next time bloggers.