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P a g e | 32 offerings out and watched as just one fish came So, that was to be the plan and on the next trip I out and took a couple, before sliding back under walked probably half a mile to a swim that I had the weed and there it stayed. Still, I was in no fished the previous season. I knew that it had hurry so spent some more time looking for fish the features that I was looking for; I was just and talking to the few anglers that were already hoping that the weed would not be too bad, as it fishing. was in other parts. I need not have worried, as the swim was fine, just as it was last season. It Evening arrived and the fish I had found earlier was around eight o’clock when I was settled in, were still there. As I trickled bait in they became pellets and broken boilies had been loose fed to more and more confident; it looked as if I could where I thought the river deepened, my rig was not fail. Well I did! I fished the swim all night cast in and I sat down for a smoke. An hour and and not a sign of a bite, not even a liner. Come a half passed by with no sign, when suddenly the morning, there was no sign of the fish that the rod pulled over and an angry Barbel took off had been feeding so confidently the evening downstream. The fight was short, as I had to before; all a bit strange. I stuck to the same bully the fish away from the weed and the far method on my next few visits but, apart from bank. I rested the fish in the net while I got my one barbel of around 8lb’s and a few chub, some of which were over 5lb’s, I was struggling and it looked as if the anticipation of the new season was going to be better than the reality. It was interesting though, in that each time I found fish and fished at night for them, they would be absent in the morning. Was it something I was doing or were they leaving the cover of the weed during the hours of darkness? I did not have the answer but knew they were moving out of my area to feed somewhere else. Having been fairly successful 11lb 2oz barbel with my methods, rigs and scales and camera ready as it looked a decent bait on this river in the three seasons I had fish and it weighed 11lb 2oz - my first double of fished it, I decided that on the next visit I would the season and one that had possibly come due not look to find fish. Instead, I would look for to the new plan I had used. One fish however, areas near to weed, slightly deeper and with although a good start, would need to be backed plenty of far bank cover, thinking that any up with others for me to be convinced that the natural food coming downstream would drop fish were moving into deeper water during into the deeper water and that it may be to this darkness. kind of area that the fish were moving during the hours of darkness.