Well in the last week I've had another evening down the lostock with Dave this time. I am pleased to say that he caught his first ever river barbel too! Well done mate! we wandered down to the pool that i had caught from previously and both managed to get a barbel and managed a couple of decent chub as well. What a great evening it was, a brace of barbel from the tiny river however i wont be returning now for a couple of months at least as i don't want to catch them again, i guess that in a habitat like that they would suffer dearly from stress.

What a brace of nice little barbel!
So without the lostock on my agenda i managed to grab an hours plugging for jacks on the lodges, i caught two with this small jack being the largest.

i even managed carp number 3 from the lodges this season in the form of this small common taken on a floating mixer under some marginal trees
That has pretty much been my week, I'm off onto the ribble tonight with my dad, i wont be bothering fluff chucking at tourists but ill take a tub of worms and a tin of spam see what i can latch into, you never know this time tomorrow i may have a picture of a double figure barbel up here, it may be a 5lb chub or even a river carp! the again it could just be a snig or even worse nothing at all only time will tell.

tight lines

nige