Best Session of 2000/2001

[Tom]

Now that the 2000/2001 season has finished what was your most memorable/enjoyable session?

My most enjoyable session was @ Kingsmead where I managed to catch 3 Pike between 14 and 18lb in an afternoon whilst my mate caught zip! I also lost another that felt about the same size. Shame that this didn't continue throughout the winter!/images/forum/icons/smile.gif

At the moment I can't remember much further back than November as I have been out celebrating the end of another failed season!

What was your best session and why?

Tom

[Paulm]

Oh...so many to choose from.............

I fish Abbotts and over the years with alot of hard work i have got my head round it now. The start of the season saw me bank '28' carp in a 'week' from this hard venue. Biggest being my PB 33lb 4oz but also i banked a few of the originals - luvley jubley!!

Another one would be when i took my first 30lb'er from the surface, a Common as well on 8lb mono.
That i don't think will ever be forgotten

Then there was my first every Barbel, a 10lb 2oz beast. A fish i've been trying to catch for the past two winters.

Paulm /images/forum/icons/wink.gif

[John_H]

I find sessions are memorably good for two reasons - either when I bag up, or when perseverance and skill earn their reward in tricky conditions the form of a reasonable catch.

In 2000 I had a few of both. The very first time I even saw Blue Pool I caught 7 carp for 45lb on a set of Avon gear - a good bag for me, at least ! The best persevering day was a trout day on Sutton Bingham in Somerset last May where I came away at around 4:30pm with the 5 fish limit but having fished 4 different spots with a variety of methods to get the bag.

Both sorts of day are very enjoyable - I am starting to think as time rolls on that the "persevering" days are the very best of all...

[Billyo]

Like many others, I've had quite a few memorable sessions this season, but a couple that spring to mind are:

1). A friend took me along to a stretch of the Upper Kennet. We went kitted out with light trotting gear and had fish from every swim. After barbel fishing with heavy-ish gear for quite a few years, I forgot how much fun trotting with a light float onto 3lb line and centrepin was and this is probably the reason I enjoyed it so much ! We must have walked a few miles, dropping into every swim back to the car park and I even netted a decent roach, with my mate having a nice 2lb 6oz perch. Plenty of roach, dace, grayling caught that day /images/forum/icons/smile.gif

2). After saying for about 4 years that come winter I'll have a try for the roach. Well this year I finally did and had a nice brace of fish from the Hants. Avon. No two pounders (1.15 & 1.8), but a thoroughly enjoyable day from a hard water !

Bill.

[clive]

Tom, I think I'd go back to May last year, at the Ryemeads venue. I had two short sessions on consecutive Sunday mornings. The first was a beautiful day, clear , quite mild, I float fished the long pit with breadflake. Not much action at all but, I had one bite, hooked a good sized tench... it snapped me up on 5lb line! oh well.
The following Sunday I was back, float out in front of me and also a second rod with maggot-feeder, on the advice of one of the balliffs who I met the week before. Same as before not much happened, then my reel started screaming. Something had picked up my bait on my feeder rod, it kited across the lake into the reeds, I waded out to the top of my wellies, managed to bully it out, then gradually brought it in. A beautiful 8lb 6oz tench! My new PB by 10oz!
I think my season was made then and there.

Clive