Tried again on a stretch thats usually a bit easier just to try and catch something...
Arrived at 5.30 then at 6 something happened that I've not experienced for a while - fish on! Obviously a barbel, and the way it was fighting felt like a good fish. Plodding around, I was making slow but steady progress, although the fish was still taking line off a fairly tight clutch when it wanted. I had probably got it 2/3rds of the way in and I felt it turn and...that horrible feeling of realisation that it had come off.
Sat down gutted that I had lost my first fish for ages and it felt like a really good one, but then the ones that come off usually do.
