Fished the Lea Valley Tuesday and Wednesday.
By God it was hot. 30c when I arrived. Walked the river for about three hours just to re-familiarise myself with the old girl. I used to fish this particular section a few years ago. It has changed a bit. Some for the better I must say, some maybe not so good.
Ended up fishing a couple of lovely swims until about 10pm. The rod top barely moved. Ah well, next time maybe.
The following day I moved to a different river. This proved a bit more productive. I was hoping for the roach. I set-up with a light quiver tip and decided to fish a small feeder with mini pellets in. I used a small elips pellet banded on to an 18 hook. I thought this might just do the trick for these big, wary roach. First bite was…..yes you’ve guessed it; a barbel. Not too big fortunately.
I persevered with the roach fishing for a while and then swapped over to bread flake when I had pulled out of 2 more barbel. I did end up with a couple of roach, but only small ones. The barbel kept coming and I ended up with 15. Some days barbel seem to just hang em selves.
A Lea barbel
The River Angler 
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