After work Redfin session..

I'm lucky enough to finish work early on a Friday afternoon so it gives me the advantage to get on the bank early and miss the weekend rush. On this paticular afternoon I decided to have some lunch and head down my local stretch of river the itchen. My set up for this occasion was a 3lb mainline straight through, a 2BB Drennan stick float and a size 20 Drennan super specialist hook. The reason why I used a light stick float is the flow is nice and slow and the stretch is nice and deep. So With only my light acolyte rod and centre pin a net and tackle bag I set off down the itchen.so 

I always start off at the bottom of the stretch and work my way up. I fished a few of my favourite spots sadly only producing small grayling and a few trout. With time getting on i decided to get to my main roach spot. There's been a few other anglers targeting the roach at this location so I knew it was going to be tricky. I baited a few areas with maggot and let the roach "if" they were about have a few free offerings and gain there confidence. After baiting for an hour I decided to have a trot on my first favoured area. After a few trots the finicky roach began to bite! Glad I'd found them in quite quick time i baited with a pinch of maggot and trotted down with the free offerings. I was getting bites along side a big set of snags.. As the float maruded past the snags the float disappeared and I was Into the first roach of the season! After a spirited fight the first roach was in the back of the net! After baiting and resting the swim shortly I trotted through again and the bites began again.. After a few trots through the swim and a few finicky bites the float disappeared once again and I was into another Redfin! The bites continued and I ended up landing six lovely Redfins to 1.4lb, five where also  over 1lb, sadly I lost two good fish. But I was happy with catching six roach in such a short time! If you fish for roach you'll know how finicky they are. 

After a few photos memories were made and I slipped the beautiful roach back to there chalk stream home. 

The season is drawing in and I'm hoping to have one or two more roach sessions and I'm praying that magical 2lber slips up.. 

Thanks for reading my blog and be lucky on the bank!