After enduring a run of lost fish on the float, Keith Woods knew something had to change and, after making a few tweaks to his set-up, he was rewarded with this fine 7lb 12oz chub.
Keith had been fishing the River Lea at Kings Weir, but admitted that he’d ‘bumped’ lots of fish this season. He’d been trotting breadflake and reckoned that, when hooked directly, the bait had been impacting his hookholds.
So, he switched to hair-rigging his bread, and changed to a Drennan Barbel hook, a size 8 instead of his usual size 10.
On a recent weekend-long trip to the river, he’d baited a swim with liquidised bread for a few days and, when fishing it on his final morning, he hooked a good fish 30 yards down the run on his second trot through.
With snags on either bank, a nervy fight followed, but his 15ft rod enabled him to hold the fish away from trouble, and his 6lb mainline held firm.
NOW THE RIVERS ARE CLOSED, HEAD TO ONE OF THESE GREAT VENUES TO CATCH SOME FISH!
