Blythe

River Blythe 

4:50pm to 6:45pm. 

Overcast. Calm.  9C dropped to 5C.  River normal.

Fished 2 swims.

1 chub. 2lbs+.

Worked from home so I could grab the last couple of hours down the Blythe. 

Managed a chub first cast inside a minute. Meatball doing the trick. Decided to rest the swim and moved down 20 yards for a few chucks. Nothing materialised so I moved back to the starting point.

I hooked into something much better with 20 mins to go, but it did me over in a downstream snag. Thoroughly cheesed off, I pressed on into darkness, but the tip was motionless. 

It went beautifully quiet in those final moments of the season. River flat calm, not a breath of wind. Just the occasional squawk of a pheasant and the hoot of an owl. A peaceful close.

I'm planning to take a breather for a few weeks to catch up on some much needed work at home. I'll return in May for some stillwater action.