Got down on the Swale last night about 6ish and all setup for 7:30, took me that long to choose a peg! Was canny busy last night and all the good pegs were took or so I thought ;)
Fished two rods both with cage feeders and 2ft hook lengths, one with corn one with pellet over a bed of groundbait and mixed particles..
I was sat down on the next peg with two lads having a few beers with them, always nice to meet new people when fishing :D
Anyway got to just before 12 and I said I'm sure my bite alarms just lite up, didn't light up on the receiver? So went over to check and all seemed fine, whilst I was there I went to take the rod out the water and the line was over my other rod, hmmm seems I had a run!.. Started to wind in when alls I felt was bang!!!! Fish was still on!! After a good long scrap one of the lads from the next peg come and netted it, got it up the bank weighed it and the scales went to 5.15lb... New PB woohoo..
I was happy I improved on my 4.08lb from last week (which was my previous personal best)..
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Went to sleep a happy man, wasn't bothered if I caught any more cause that was 2 in 2 and 2 personal bests in 2..
Got to 2:45 and my rod screamed off again! This time the one with pellets on.
Fish headed straight upstream? Wasn't expecting that I thought they normally went down stream.. Got the fish near the edge and then it decided it wanted to go in the snags...
So tightened the drag up and was trying to hold it away from the trees, thought my arm was gonna get ripped off, ran down the bank and netted it.
I could see straight away it was deffo bigger than the last, I took the hook out the fishes mouth and noticed that the pressure the fish was pulling at whilst I was holding it had snapped the tip of the hook off :/
Note to self: don't use korum specimen hooks again...
Got the weigh sling out and zeroed the scales, put the fish in and scales went straight round to 9.01lb!! W00000T another pb!! I was on a roll ;)
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So rebaited both rods and at about 6am, the sweet corn rod screamed off again!!!! Couldn't believe my luck :D
After another battle with a barbel I got it in weighed it and scales showed 7.09lb..
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This turned out to be one of my best and most rememberable river trips yet :)
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