{"id":2878,"date":"2019-08-22T22:02:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T21:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2019-08-22T22:16:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T21:16:30","slug":"stick-float-fishing-on-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=2878","title":{"rendered":"Stick Float Fishing On the River"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have just got back from an amazing day on the River Thames with Pete. We’ve been on his local Radcot Angling Club stretch and it’s been absolutely brilliant!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>When Pete first contacted me I was pleasantly surprised to learn he’s a big fan of my YouTube videos and that he wanted a day’s fishing with me as a result. A day’s stick float and feeder fishing was duly pencilled in my diary and I’ve been really looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

I’ve fished the adjacent section at Clanfield several times but never been fortunate enough to fish at Radcot itself, which is a really attractive bit of river with a great reputation.\u00a0We had a walk upstream and downstream of the bridge at the Ye Olde Swan pub and eventually settled on a swim that was sheltered from the brisk downstream wind. To be fair I think we could have sat anywhere and caught a few as the entire stretch looks really fishy.<\/p>\n

Kicking off on the feeder our very first cast produced… a crayfish! A few missed bites followed before we lengthened the hooklength and started to connect with a few small fish before a quality roach snaffled his worm hook bait.<\/p>\n

All the while Pete had been priming a close in stick float swim with casters and hemp and soon into the session we decided to see if any roach were about. A bite first cast on a tare was a great sign and within minutes he was swinging in a chunky roach. That was the end of the feeder fishing as from this point on we were both totally hooked on catching these lovely redfins on float-fished hemp and tares!<\/p>\n

It was a deep swim and with countless bleak and minnows to get through, so Pete kicked off with a relatively heavy 7BB stick float. This worked really well to begin with as roach after roach came to the net, plus the occasional dace. A brief try with a worm over the top yielded a brace of perch as well.<\/p>\n

As the fish became even more excited he began catching them as much as 3ft off the bottom. This prompted me to set him up with a much lighter 4 No4 stick float with strung out shot. \u00a0This worked a treat and\u00a0Pete was really in his element swinging and netting decent roach. The fish were still feeding avidly when it was sadly time to pack away.<\/p>\n

It was lovely to see so many nice roach feeding and it was a great day in great company. A healthy double-figure net of fish was Pete’s reward. I know Pete’s now itching to get back to have another go… and so am I!<\/p>\n\n\t\t