First time fishing a BAA Severn Stretch

 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 few bites he told me something I also surspected... I was getting shot bites.

He told me to try bulking the shot down, and this worked with me hitting more bites, and not getting unhittable ones, even if it sacrifices shirt button presentation.

I was not catching one a chuck but enough to tide me over as the sun came up quite strong. With the weather we've been having, it's easy to forget the strength of July sun.

I finished with about 20 small Roach, the biggest being pictured above, 3 Chublets, and 3 Perch. All caught on Tares, even the Perch!

On the Acolyte rod I could not swing even the smallest Roach, and you can't just wind them in on that rod, so it was good fun, and I was particularly relieved there was only the odd Bleak about when I expected there to be eruptions of them when I first saw the stretch. It's 20 more Roach than I expected.

I did chuck out a feeder rod when I got tired of trotting, with banded 8mm, but despite a few knocks probably from Chublets, I didn't catch anything on that, probably being the wrong time of day in the full sun to try it.

I have had to thank my mate for telling me about this stretch as I think it's wonderful and will be fishing it a lot.

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