River Soar 18-08-2012

a 2 hour session sees 2 crackers on the bank, its all about timing it right depending on the weather. First take of the night was a lovely barbel of 10lb8oz, after returning the barbel and re baiting the peg i sat down to roll a smoke and off the other rod went.

I lifted into a powerful fish that was ripping line off the spool, i finally got it under control and could see it was common as it swam right under my feet, i thought at the time it was the common i caught last year at 18lb but when i did get it in the net after a 20 min battle i knew it was not the same common, on the scales it went 16lb4oz. buzzing with what i had caught i packed up and was home early.