Haven't fished between the Paston family pools for some time now. River fairly full but steady and I wondered if I could find the roach. Bites on double reds from the off , they wanted it low and slow so bite/dragging hard to distinguish. Found one area of the short glide where the Avon went through just right, and picked up three fish in quick succession before bites tailed off.
Moved down 20 yards but only got bites way down (the lurking otter perhaps), hooked just one and what a belter it was.
Enough for me to move down where the bites were coming, and another three roach in fairly quick time before the cold got the better of my fingers with a tawny taking over from a drumming woodpecker in the poplar stand and the corvids gathered for their nightly congregation. doubt many of these have felt a hook before, fresh as newly minted coins. All hail the winter roach.
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