River roach

[WILF 51,160]

Anyone been at the river roach now the autumn is here?

[Guest Leveller]

No

[WILF 51,160]

You stick to your commercial " fish in a barrel" venues ya messer, leave the grown ups to discuss real angling !

[Guest Leveller]

Now you know nothing could be further away from my fishing than that commercial nonsense................................bivvy boy!

[Mr Wilkes 3,164]

Too much water for my liking.

[chrismdd 787]

Decent roach on our river. Come and join us www.stoke-sub-hamdonaa.co.uk. I fish the river for roach the last hour or two of light through to about one in the morning. After using the avon quiver for a long time I took a leaf out of John Bailey's book and now use avon rods set-up with bobbins (beta lights attached) and sometimes a simple fox alarm and now my hit rate has greatly increased and its less frustrating than concentrating on a quiver tip all night as you can really watch the bite develop and hit it only on a good lift (or drop) of the bobbin. Generally find fishing corn (all year round) or flake over a bed of hemp works here. Good luck with the river roach thats real fishing (and we also get some really good dace at the same time and methods). Chris

[Guest Leveller]

As much as I love the river in the winter I find it difficult to fit any fishing in through the hunting season. I have fished lower parts of the Parret, the Yeo and the Isle and taken some big Pike on dead baits on a cold frosty morning too.

[chrismdd 787]

Hi Leveller, being from this neck of the woods there is so much choice to do in terms of hunting and fishing that I find myself dabbling with a lot of things and becoming a 'jack of all trades' and 'master of none'. Thankfully my main passions are river fishing and ferreting and as these are within walking distance of the house I can use my time efficiently when conditions are right. Those pike on my website for the club were caught on the lower part of the Parrett. However, that was a few years back when there were good numbers and we had many a fine winters day roving up and down the Parrett away from the roads and often see some fantastic wildlife (otter mother feeding three youngsters up at Middleney only twenty feet away from us) and also watch the beagle packs out after the hares. We stopped pike fishing seriously there when we noticed too many less well equipped anglers coming along and very quickly saw the fall in quality pike as they don't suffer well with pressure. Hopefully good days will return after a bit of neglect. Chris