Mark Swaby
Senior Member
George, have a look closer to you the upper reaches of the Bristol Avon has produced lots of 2lb roach over the years.Short evening sessions are the answer, walk and look for them rolling.DR Mark Everard seems to catch plenty from there. I once saw a massive roach on the free stretch at Chippenham,down towards the bypass bridge.A fish all on its own, that could have been my first 3. I was roving with Barbel gear but managed to find a spool of 3 lb hooklength and a piece of flake from a sandwich was soon flicked out above it in the margins.The fish came right up to that piece of flake,up ended, nose to the flake, touched it and then backed off,what a Git.