What a day,

The recent poor day on Sillan had one some good sides, we had stacks of bait left and were
both dying to get back out to actually catch something. A day on the river was called for so we set off
for The Barrow, with a plan for Rob to fish the pole and I was on the stick. Fishing this way meant we could change over at some stage if we wanted to. We had a look beside the supermarket but between, the cars, the noise and the filth we decided against it and headed for "The Lawn". After getting set up it wasn't long before Rob was in to some quality roach. A 12grm Sensas Flat Float went through the swim quite well and with a size 16 Drennan Silverfish Hook everything appeared to be spot on.
He had an early burst of roach, then the dace took over. An introduction of Groundbait seemed to bring the roach back and he started getting them again.

I was down stream and running a Drennan Stick Float, feeding loose  mags and caster and after 20 odd mins started getting bites, a mix of roach and dace and some great dace to be fair. With the flow going left to right and a strengthening wind going the other way, line control was easy and things were lookng good.

23 fish on the stick

After an hour and a half Rob went to get the breakfast and I jumped on his box for a few put ins on the pole. By now the wind was really making things difficult, hanging on to his pole was just not good and there was a real danger of something getting busted so we decided to pack up and look for somewhere a bit more sheltered.

22 fish on the pole

We had a look at the "Swimming Pool" but that was wide open and too windy so we moved back to where we initially looked at the Supermarket. We decided to leave the pole in the car and just set the float gear up again, the next couple of hours was just cracking. One rod between us, cracking sport.
We were up and running quite quickly, using the same set up from earlier. A couple of run throughs to re check the depth and after a couple of adjustments we were ready.

Robs turn...........

I started and after a few fish we agreed that after each one of us had 5 in the net we'd swop. Quite quickly we had 25 in the net and we set a target off 55 fish which would give us 100 for the day. Loose fed mags and caster seemed to bring dace and like earlier introducing groundbait seemed to bring roach. At about 4.30 and with the light fading we were on 50, 5 more to bag and it was my turn on the rod. We were chatting to a local lad about various swims in the area and as I cast out before I knew what had happened there was line everywhere, a real birds nest. Cut the line in a hurry, Rob pulled the float back in by hand and I re threaded the rod. It's almost dark at this stage I can hardly see what I'm doing but a few minutes later and we're not going home till we have the 100. The last few casts had Team Kavo working together,  from where we were sitting the street lights that illuminated the bridge meant after a small run of the float I couldn't see it in the reflection on the water. Theres always a way round these things and Rob moved 10 yards down the bank where the reflection wasn't an issue. So I cast and he called it, as soon as he said "Strike" I did and 10 minutes later we netted
fish number 100. A fabulous days pleasure fishing came to an end with two happy anglers grinning
from ear to ear. The drive home flew by as we were in flying form, so good that Rob actually stayed awake all the way home, another first.

55 glorious Barrow Roach and Dace

Lovely Jubbly