Anyone who knows me or has read this blog will know that my favourite part of this sport is river fishing and Lee Blundell who ably assists me told me sometime ago that he had done very little trotting (allowing a float to run down with the current). A couple of weeks ago when we were at the Urban Escapes weekend Dave higham had a Okuma Aventa deluxe centre pin for sale and I persuaded Lee to buy it on the condition I taught him how to use it.
Yesterday I took him for a day on the river Kennet to fulfill that promise, we went to the same stretch that I fished last monday and I put him in the same swim that I fished. As I would have expected of such a capable angler he soon picked up the basic techniques and by the end of the day he was well on his way to becoming a good float fisherman.
He caught fish all day almost every trot down, roach, dace, small chub and lots of gudgeon and says he really enjoyed himself and learned a lot. He lost one fish that broke the three pound hook length as it tried to get him into the roots, I think it was probably a chub. He is really hooked on river fishing with a float and I am sure this will be the first of many such days.
After he left I stayed on an hour or so into dark and caught a barbel of nearly seven pounds on legered halbut pellet. A Good fish to end a really enjoyable day.
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