Due to the amount of rain pouring into some

of my favorite rivers over the past few weeks

Ive had to carefully choose the venues i want to fish.

Theres one river that you can rely on to run off

after plenty of rain and that the River Ribble in

Lancashire,it can be 4ft up one day and normal

level the next.

Last week saw me visiting a stretch of the Ribble

i had not fished for 20 years and that was the tidal

reaches in Preston.I had walk the the stretch i was fishing

the day before and took a note of possible swims that might

hold some fish,some swims were more obvious than others

with fish topping and giving there presence away

First light was the plan to start fishing and after a fair walk

arrived at my peg.tactics was going to be the waggler down the

middle of the river with double bronze maggot on the hook.

After a couple of runs down the swim with the waggler and a

pouch full of maggots the float slid away and a nice Dace was

on its way to my net.The couple of hours produced a bite most

runs down the river with the main culprits being small Dace and Roach.Just as the tide was backing up the river the float slid

away but this time it was something a lot bigger and a few minutes

a nice fat Chub was in the net .After the Chub the fishing went quiet so called it a day