This session saw me on a very popular stretch of the Thames, the same section where only the week before a very large catfish had been reported as lost at the net after an hour long fight.
Upon arrival at around 1930, there was one other guy just packing up further along the stretch, but other than that, there was no one else around.
One thing I noticed immediately was that the water level was up to almost over the bank, which I think was probably down to the EA holding the water back from the weir upstream. The water was still crystal clear, I could pick out bits on the bottom about a rod length out, thats how clear it is!!
I set about setting everything up, as the water was so clear and not moving at all, I decided to fish with a slack line and bobbins resting ont he floor, just as I would for carp in a lake, coupled with a flying back lead, I was sure that I had laid the line along the bottom.
Hooklengths again, 8lb mono, size 8 hooks, on one with 2 glugged 15mm boilies, the other a standard 18mm straight from the packet, both rigs were cast out with PVA bags full of mixed Halibut pellets.
I put a scattering of boilies out mid river and fished one rod over these, the other rod was fished "roving" style, and cast around the swim every half hour.
Darkness came and with it as did the rats, now I dont know what it is abot rats, but they freak the hell out of me, and with one running back and forth under my rods, setting my alarms off due to the slack line, it did nothing to calm me!!!
A fish would have taken my mind off of it but that was not to be, I packed up at 2200, fishless!!!
Im not too bothered about blanking, after all it seems 90% of the people I have spoken to are all in the same boat, so it seems being in the right spot at the right time is something I have not achieved yet!!!
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