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At close range, another hard Severn session

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I say close range, there's little point fishing the first meadow on the BAA stretch of Severn near Bridgnorth I went to today. That means a good walk to the second meadow. When I arrived about 3pm I saw two cars parked up. Walking past the first meadow I saw no anglers, and my suspicions were confirmed when I got to the pegs I wanted to fish and people were on them. A walk a bit further and someone on the third choice of peg. I think these pegs are getting hammered for whatever reason, that makes them a less attractive proposition, but you have to make do. So on to my fourth or fifth or even sixth choice of pegs due to a few being well overgrown. Once you've walked all the way to the second meadow, you might as well fish there. I chose a peg that weren't too comfortable but would do. This was the view upstream. There's a big fallen log in the water just above it, and you can't fish that peg as a result, but a fish would have had to go upstream to snag me up on it ...
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THE LIDO: A change of plan

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 As planned I went to the local lido early yesterday morning. Nobody was there. I had free choice of pegs and chose one next to a bush in the water. I was fishing for about 5 minutes and had 5 bites! 2 of them I missed. 1 on maggot produced an 8oz Perch. 1 on 4mm expander produced a 4oz Skimmer. My final bite was as the bailiff appeared behind me. It was certainly a Carp. To mine and the bailiffs dismay it went under the bush and snapped my hooklength. He then told me there was a match on today and although they might not peg this far up the lake, to go if they told me to.  He didn't charge me, but I didn't want to be fishing when a match turned up so I packed away after those short 5 minutes. Maybe I will give it another go, but first impressions are that it has a lot of small Carp in there, so I'll choose a more open water spot.
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THE LIDO: A likely looking spot!

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 I went to check out a park lake at a fairly local lido today. Obviously you don't fish in the lido itself, but there is a small mature fishing pool right next to it. It's only a small, fairly narrow and long pool but looks well established with plenty of nice sturdy platforms on the pegs.  I'm going to go and fish it tomorrow hoping for a mixed bag with some Crucians.  The Rules Board is promising on the Crucians front.  But I spoke to one of the few anglers that were there braving the rain today, and he told me he'd had 10 small Carp, so who knows. I'll soon find out I guess!
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Another day on the Severn with a mate

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 My mate who told me about the BAA stretch I've recently started to fish and blog about joined me there at 7am this morning. I went on the same peg as first time I fished it a couple of days ago and my mate on the peg upstream.   I started on caster and had a Bleak so went on tares and had the odd bite early on. It was quite slow going. I had 4 Roach and another that dropped off the hook, a Chublet about 12oz, and about 5 Bleak.  Meanwhile my mate had not had a bite for the first few hew hours until I stopped getting bites at all and he had half a dozen Roach when I had packed away, but a Pike had taken another couple of Roach from him. All in all a pleasant day in good company even if the fishing was slow. It was nice to go with an experienced angler who knows the stretch, as if I had gone on my own I would have been questioning if I was just fishing it wrong. Apparently it gets better on this stretch as the year goes on, but with a lot of hemp and tares leftover from to...
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First time fishing a BAA Severn Stretch

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 As I blogged yesterday, I went to check out a new to me BAA stretch of the Severn below Stourport with the intention of fishing it today, and I did just that! I arrived at dawn for an early start. It made me laugh, I was told it was 6' deep. I swung out a stick float with a plummet on a rig I'd made up the night before, and it was bang on depth without having to move the float. Talk about getting good info. It was well comfortable fishing. I wanted enough room to maneuver my new 15' Acolyte which makes a nice change for Severn fishing for me. The only thing that made the session slightly uncomfortable was the direction of the mild 10mph wind, which was downstream and towards me. I didn't have to fish far out though as had depth close enough in. I started on caster and had a few Bleak so went on to Tares and had a few Roach almost straight away. My mate who told me about the stretch was texting me and asking how I was getting on. When I told him I had started to miss a ...
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Checking out a new to me BAA stretch of Severn

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 I got laughed at in the tackle shop when I said the bait I was buying was for Stourport. I told them I've been given mixed info, as most people say the Roach only shoal up there in winter, others say they should be there all year round. According to my tackle shop, it's pointless going there until after the first frosts. With a load of bait and looking for somewhere else to go, I decided to go and have a look at another BAA stretch a few miles downstream of there...which might seem counter intuitive given people say the Roach move to faster water in summer... ... but what a beautiful stretch! Even though it's probably a few inches on from low summer level, there still wasn't much flow, with it being quite a wide stretch, easily as wide as Stourport. I don't expect much from tomorrow as a result, as it looks like it will be solid with Bleak for a strart. It looks like it would fish well with another foot of water on at least to me. I'm still excited to fish it t...
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Some new little Savage Gear lures

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 As I've mentioned in my Drop Shot reports, I've been having the best relative success on Savage Gear Roach Minnow lures compared to some of the others I've got. I ordered some of the Perch pattern to try and they arrived today. I say relative success, I'm only catching small Perch, and only the odd one, and don't as yet know a lure from my elbow if I saw one, but it's all part of learning.
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