AAF Gr 2 Match 4 River Avon

Well todays little outing saw me down on the river Avon in Chippenham, after the journey down with Lee "Nobby" Noble we arrived at the HQ for todays match.

At the draw the Gaffer "Gary Williams" drew me B4, not a bad draw I thought as i made my way to my peg, on arrival I found that the stretch had purpose built platforms, ideal no getting wet today then.

I set up 3 pole rigs to cover my pole attack and a waggler rod to fish the far side for the resident Chub.
The first rig would consist of a Garbolino Ds4 1.5g and this would be my lighter rig to fish about 1ft off the deck, this would be tied to 0.12 Xedion pole line, a 0.08 hooklength and a size 20 B560.

The 2nd rig for the session would be my main rig and would be a Ds4 2.0g, this would be tied to 0.12 Xedion pole line, a 0.10 hooklength and a size 18 B560.

The 3rd rig would be my laying on rig and would consist of a Ds13 3.0g tied to 0.14 Xedion pole line to a 0.12 hooklength and a size 16 B560, this would be used if any Bream showed along the stretch.

At the All in I balled 8 large balls on my pole line and started to ping maggot acorss to the line of trees that covered the far bank, first put in on the pole line resulted in a 4oz chublet and then a 2oz dace followed, then nothing it was as if someone had taken all the fish out of the river, I never had a bite for about 1 hour no matter what I tried, so I re fed 2 balls of GB on the pole line and picked up the wag rod.

First cast with the Wag I latched into a 6oz perch and then another followed on the very next cast, then again after 2 fish it went dead, this was very strange.

I rested the Wag line and went back in on the pole, after several runs through I latched into a Chub of about 1 3/4 lb, then another of about 6oz, on the very next run through the float shot away and I connected with a monster, after about 10mins a looked across the river to where my elastic was stretched to see a large silver shadow just under the surface, this fish was over 2 ft long and then SNAP, my hooklength had pinged of a sunken branch, and that was the end of that, Gutted.

For the remainder of the match I continued to work both lines putting a few more fish in my net, at the scales I put just under 5lb on them which was just enough for 3rd in section, which has earned me the nick name of MR Consistant within my team.

Not a bad day afterall.