River Dove Opening Day...

[Chesh]

thanks to a teacher training day i had the pleasure of taking junior down to the river dove on the glorious opening day of the season.. turned up to the carp park and it was heaving lol

spoke to a couple of chaps who had caught a few chub, people bivvied up from midnight etc...

managed to sneak into a swim with a loverly overhanging tree... fed a few pellets.. to cut a long story short i missed 3 what can only be described as SAVAGE bites (must of been barbel) towards the end of the day i nailed my first 3lb chub was chuffed to bits took a few pics only to find when i got home they hadnt saved onto the memory card on camera????? wierd!

by the sounds of it only one barbel from the Derby stretch of 8lb was caught butloads of 4lb+ chub from the sotas stretches

[kevw]

Give it a couple of weeks and should get a bit quieter, weekend after next hopefully my first go for this season

[connor]

i went today for the 1st time and found the sign posts or rather lack of them! very poor . wish it was better organized in the way of directions ie sat nav post codes or better directions in the sotas book they look like a child has drawn them !left my house in liverpool only to be greeted with sheets of rain and when i got there it was dancing down couldnt have picked a worse day if i tried, never seen another angler there had a little look round and seen some big chubb no barble tho

[Julian Grattidge]

Originally Posted by connor

i went today for the 1st time and found the sign posts or rather lack of them! very poor . wish it was better organized in the way of directions ie sat nav post codes or better directions in the sotas book they look like a child has drawn them

Sat nav codes! lol!

Never had a problem finding any of waters from the maps in the ticket. Mind you, I know how to read an OS Map.

[GAVIN1]

Originally Posted by connor

i went today for the 1st time and found the sign posts or rather lack of them! very poor . wish it was better organized in the way of directions ie sat nav post codes or better directions in the sotas book they look like a child has drawn them !left my house in liverpool only to be greeted with sheets of rain and when i got there it was dancing down couldnt have picked a worse day if i tried, never seen another angler there had a little look round and seen some big chubb no barble tho

i must say the signs arnt the best but never had a problem just followed the map in the book.