Bank Holiday Blues 25-5-20

Well with tench on my mind I headed out to the same lake I fished last Thursday .I decided to fish a peg I’d not fished for a while .Same tactics as last week , Float rod and corn and pellet . It was real warm today with bright blue skies and hoping that the tench had woke up properly .Well after nearly 4 hours and not a touch I switched to the feeder rod.

If you look closely you can see my float.

I’d made up Balls with the Nash Ball maker with Sonubaits super feeder, smells really sweet.
So back to the feeder rod I’d not fished a flat bed method feeder on this water so this would be my approach with micro pellets and Either wafters or Bandums.

Loaded and ready to cast. It took just over an hour to get my first bite ,  a nice Bream.

A good size to start with.I carried on for just over 2 hours and waiting for bites took longer before I had 2 more good sized bream.

By now it was just after 3 pm and was even warmer so I packed up.Not a great session , frustrating but nice to be out.Dont think this lake has switched on yet and will be back .

Tight Lines , Stay Safe

Tench on my mind. 21-5-20

Well it’s been a long time since I went fishing . With what’s going on in the world right now with this Damn Virus I managed to get back out amongst nature sat by a lake doing what I thought I may never see again for sometime.Grateful to be out and my condolences to all the family’s who’ve lost a life to Covid 19.
My main plan was to fish a lake for tench , but not being able to get information on whether or not I could fish it.Plan B came in to effect and I went elsewhere armed with only hemp pellet and corn so it was a suck it and see moment whether it would work .Where I wanted to go maggots are a NO No due to high population of Rudd.I chose my peg and baited with 3 small balls of groundbait , it was going to be slow .I was feeding small pellet little and often .

I was fishing really close in with the centrepin and float rod .First bite was a nice bream.
Then what a came for ripped the float straight under .

A lovely tench and was well pleased . My next two bites were lovely bars of Gold .

I managed 2 crucians put up a great fight .

After bites dried up I went on the feeder rod and couldn’t buy a bite the sun was blazing hot by now

I decided to pack up and go home , not a bagging by any means but lovely day and some nice fish all falling to corn hook baits . Love catching on the centre pin it’s awesome .

Don’t forget keep it safe out there for fellow anglers in these times of uncertainty .

Tight Lines,Stay safe