🎣 On the River Severn and the most challenging session of the year so far
For the third day on the bounce, I was on the river seven in Shropshire, and with extremely heavy rain and strong winds, it was a challenge, to put it mildly.
Certainly for the first hour anyway, and then it all changed.
The wind dropped and the rain stopped and it was a totally different day to what it was previously.
Until the bitterly cold northerly wind kicked in.
No wonder the British people constantly talk about the weather.
The stretch I fished, as mentioned in my last angling blog post, was the BAA stretch at Danery.
In more than six hours, I didn’t get a single bite.
📹 watch footage from the session.
Tackle
The rod was a 9’ John Wilson Masterline Debut quivertip rod and the reel a Shimano 3500 reel, loaded with 4lb Maxima Chameleon. Below the 15g Drennan cage feeder was a small shot and 5mm bead. The hook was a Drennan Super Specialist size 14. Bait was double white maggot and I filled the cage feeder with brown crumb and red/white maggots.
Nature notes
Raven calling in flight. Several cormorants and goosanders. Kingfisher. Red kite in soaring flight (in the video). Black swan on the river (in the video).