Off to the River Soar for a short session this afternoon. I
arrived just after midday and had a good look around in the shallows to see if
I could find anything moving through. I settled on a peg which felt right and
got the rods out. I will be fishing with two rods today; the first will be a
two foot length of Fluorocarbon to a size 8 Vardis Anti-snag hook. The hook
bait will be a Marukyu Credence Krill Feast in size 14mm, with this will be a
stick mix I have made using Marukyu additives and I will be coating my Hook
bait with Credence Liquid.
The other rod will
have a two foot Vardis Abrasion Resistance Hook-link in Dark Grey tied to again
an Anti-snag hook in size 8. Bait for this rod will be again a Krill Feast in
14mm but this time I will using Marukyu EFG 142 ground bait as a stick. When
mixing this product I don’t use water instead I use Marukyu SFA 450 which is a
Krill Extract. If you have not seen the EFG 142 you must have a look it is not
to be sniffed at. I know a lot of
specimen anglers mostly carp anglers will turn their nose up to using a ground
bait but I can ensure you this is on another level.
The conditions were not what you would call great for a bite
with the blazing mid-afternoon sunshine and the River has virtually no colour
to it. An hour in to the session and the left rod just melted off, took me
right by surprise. I lifted into the fish and just ripped line off me straight
away, I had to put as much pressure on it as I dare to stop the fish from
running down stream where I would certainly lose it. A few moments of hair
raising stuff and I had control of the fish and happy played it out in front of
me. Finally I had a nice looking Barbel in the net. I reeled the other rod in
while the Barbel was resting in the net. The last thing I want in this peg is a
double pick up, don’t get me wrong it would great to two on at the same time
but not in this peg fish safety must always come first.
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