{"id":7581,"date":"2025-09-29T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T06:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=7581"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:10:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:10:54","slug":"thames-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?p=7581","title":{"rendered":"Thames Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fished the Thames Champs on Sunday, guesting for Matrix Talisman. Really liked the look of my draw, the first peg at Radcot, but I struggled to put any quality together and my 7lb was below halfway. This is a shallow swim with no depth under your feet and just 5-6ft at 13 metres, which is pretty much the only place I caught. I know it\u2019s a great peg historically, so I\u2019ve clearly not done it justice. Would love to fish it with a foot more water on and some flow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a lot of little dace and bleak and very few roach for long periods, catching best a few metres down my peg on casters and pinkies until the last 20 minutes when I typically couldn\u2019t get the rig in quick enough, fishing bang over my groundbait. Strange match on a sunny day. I just couldn\u2019t get the fish revved up and every time I topped up it killed it. Needed somewhere else to go but the depth and weed really limited my options. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, I must say Radcot\u2019s a really great section of river that fished terrific on the day. I drew the scales and witnessed lots of big quality roach and perch further downstream, the best was a 3lb 3oz stripey and there were lots of 1lb+ fish and an odd chub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well done Paul Glenfield winning the section and 2nd individually with 16lb of roach and perch on the pole, Oxford did well to win with a solid performance and Mike Berntsen won individually with 20lb at Grafton, which included three good chub and 8lb of silvers. Great fishing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fished the Thames Champs on Sunday, guesting for Matrix Talisman. Really liked the look of my draw, the first peg at Radcot, but I struggled to put any quality together and my 7lb was...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-river-thames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7586,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7581\/revisions\/7586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}