Knowing that most of the rivers near him were in flood and unfishable, Adam Bassimeh took a walk by the River Kennet on his lunch break to see if he could find any areas where he could possibly hold the bottom.
To his surprise, he found a large slack on a part of the river he hadn’t fished before, so he threw in a handful of fishmeal boilies and returned that evening.
“I cast to the ‘crease’ and allowed my 2oz inline lead to be pushed into the slack by the pacier water," he told us.
“Around an hour later the rod hooped over and I slipped the net under this 15lb 2oz barbel.”
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