I took my middle son, Joshua, fishing on the River Ouse at Naburn Lock, just outside York and he caught this mixed bag of perch, roach, bleak, hybrids and tommy ruffes. This is his first ever river session.

His biggest silver fish was the hybrid that he has in his hand. He caught this on double red maggot on the bomb. The river at Naburn is tidal and always produces at this time of year. The river was up and carrying an extra couple of foot of water, therefore had about 7ft in the river. By the time that we left, the river was still carrying about 4ft, this included still carrying the tide.

Most of the silver fish were caught using my old trusty Tricast Aristocrat float rod fishing with a waggler shotted with a bulk of shot and No.10 dropper shot.


This perch was the biggest fish of the day caught using a bit of redworm on the hook on the leger rig.

We also had a pike rod set up, but didn't get any runs or anything.

Overall it was an enjoyable day for both of us.