The idea
was for three anglers to fish on 14 different rivers for 24hrs each in the
attempt to get a double figure barbel off each of them.
As I've
already mentioned on these pages I had joined this challenge with the intent of
completed the four rivers in the area of Nottingham-Derby, namely the Dove,
Derwent, Trent and Soar. Before it had begun I gave a forecast of doubles
off six of the rivers this being a good result to my mind. I'm pleased to
say that this has been annihilated and with just six rivers completed to date
there has been a double off all of them, with a total of ten doubles being
recorded.
The
Ribble and Goyt had already been done when I joined Jerry Gleeson and Paul Floyd
since Paul had taken one off each river in the 10lb range, so
now we went on to the Dove where he completed a hat trick with a fish of
11lb-3oz. Only one other barbel was caught with Jerry taking a fish of
8lb-12oz. I just got chubbed out with no sign of the barbel coming my
way.
Now we
moved on to the Derwent using the Derby County angling Club section kindly arranged through
Alan Booth, he also came down while we were there passing valuable
information to the other two lads. The section lived up to our hopes and
two doubles were caught but they again fell to the other lads. At
11lb-4oz and 11lb-7oz they pleased the lads who took one each and added a
smaller barbel each to the total catch on the list.
On to the
Trent and we were highly delighted when Jerry caught a 12lb-8oz barbel and he
later added another double of 11lb plus to the growing tally. This time I
did manage to add to the double list with an 11lb-1oz fish whilst Paul had two
fish in single figures also getting smashed by a probable carp.
Last
section for me was a move to the Soar arranged through the LEVAS committee who
again have our thanks for the 24hr permits for the other two lads [ they
will be getting a full permit each now for themselves].
As had
been the case on each river there was no action until dark but then Jerry was
back in action again taking a quick fire brace of doubles at 10lb-3oz and
12lb-10oz, quite amazing to get two doubles brace with 12lb fish in
each off two rivers with a genuine 24 hr period. I took a 8lb-12oz
barbel with a double figure carp, bream of about 6lb and chub of perhaps 3lb
for a nice mixed bag all these fish falling to the ever reliable Source
boilie. Unfortunately Paul's run came to an end with a blank but with his
results so far he could not be too disappointed.
The lads
moved onto the River Severn to continue the effort while I retired home to
catch up on my kip. A tremendous effort
by the lads and it goes to show that there are still fish there to catch on
numerous rivers. Various tackle and rigs
combined with a number of different baits, all caught on their day and I’m sure
we will see yet more doubles before they finish.
Thanks go
to the various sponsors, The Hookbait Co, Dynamite, G-Force and Print Biz to
name some of the help that was given.
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