Cray me a river

Wednesday had some promise about it, but that eventually diminished to spiteful rain. not enough to send me packing but enough to lower my sprits. Just one sucked maggot on a being run off river didn't help but it was nice to see a fellow member  landing a very plump and clean looking pike of around 13lb from one of the bridge pools. Otters are here to stay, but always a bit dispiriting to sit at each likely spot and having to avoid the scale, vertebrae and crayfish rich spraints. Ended up on the farm pond, and a dozen or small roach provided some relief, and a few freebies for the resident pike. The ?goshawk about again. It's not a buzzard or a kite but it is quite large what ever it is.

Thursday saw me heading further afield to the Wensum with chub in mind. A much warmer day, and not  a drop of rain. A no big coat sort of day. Some of the footbridges have been washed out by the floods so it was a long walk up from the bottom end. River dropping back to normal levels and looking spot on to be honest.

Primed a couple of likely looking spots and first cast with flake saw some interest,. little plucks and pulls but no chubby stab round. I'd made a bigger disc cutter from a 35m film canister and something was finding them them interesting, and in 3 out of the 4 spots I tried.  

Pretty lowland river with proper floodplains 

I'd had my suspicions and in the fourth and last swim before curfew curtailed events a series of tugs resulted in this little blighter, with a vice like grip on the flake and size 6 wide gape. Must be paved with them. Trotting big lumps of flake perhaps?