and after the three of us had nothing after an hour or so a move was on the cards.
I had a quick look at a similar venue but decided against it, as we had nothing like enough bait for three of us to fish it. Stephen headed for home, which might have been the right idea and as we packed up we were glad we did. I've seen some things in my swim over the years but ..............
Myself and Rob had bumped into Gavin (the Ireland junior team manager) and Damien
earlier that morning and we knew they were fishing the main river in the town so we decided to pack up and go see how they did it.
Up to the town and we found them no problem, all on the pole and using 20grm Cralusso floats !!!!
Not being equipped with anything of that size we had a chat for a while and picked up a few pointers.
Now it's difficult to watch others and not have a go so back to the car out with the float rod and on with a stick float. The biggest I had actually have, is a few Drennan Big Sticks at 2.25grm.
I was quite sure that it wasn't really heavy enough but we said we'd give it an hour, and we did.
eventually and got into a few roach. It took quite a few runs through the swim to figure the best
shotting pattern and position but we got something right and started getting a few bites.
The lads fishing pole tactics were down to our right and catching a few at 13mtrs so we kept at about that distance ourselves. Regular loose feeding of mags and or hemp brought a few fish one after the other and we thought we had it cracked. You'd think we'd know by know !!!
It had taken us about 30 mins to start getting bites, then we had 4 or 5 one after the other, then it more or less died on us. We kept making adjustments and winkled out the odd fish but for whatever reason it wasn't really happening. Despite the odd shower and a biting cold wind we had really enjoyed
our first real attempt at stick float fishing on a "proper" river. It's safe to say we'll have another
go or two at that, nice.
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