Tench Part 2 24-5-24

 I couldn’t go to the lake early so I headed up there before lunch stopping of to pick up some bait . I arrived at the lake to find I had a good choice of pegs .My main problem was where did I fancy .The big difference from the last session was I took the float rod and rod pod set up of which I left in the van in case I wanted to swap over later .This time I had an array of baits . Corn, maggot , meat , pellet and lob worms .The peg had plenty of room and I set about fishing in 4 foot of water fishing the lift method .

My side tray with all my baits .Now the plan was to fish the float rod and see what happened .There was a lovely breeze blowing into the peg on a warm wind .I spent ages plumbing up looking for a good spot.I fed red mags and pellets , there was Rudd there but nothing like the last session . So I’m a couple of hours in and next minute my rod gets pulled of the rest and into the water , this was all my fault .luckily for me it went about 30 yards and stopped in the reeds . My problem now was getting it back , do I go back to the van for my other rods and cast to retrieve it . I decided I had to go in , so I stripped of , used my landing net pole to get a feel of the depth and waded out . I found it easier to walk on the reed line , I got the rod and waded back . Lucky for me I always have a big towel lol. So because of the disturbance id made I decided to put another swim in . I’d made my mind up to sit it out on the float and that was a big mistake . I managed 3 Rudd and a perch . I fished till I couldn’t see the float . So no tench again . 

So till the next time bloggers , can’t wait .

No Tench Part one

 I was up bright and early last week for tench session part 1.I arrived at the lake and what a glorious day .Only problem was it was busy .There wasn’t many pegs left and I chose I nice swim which would of suited a float rod better , but two rods on the pod would work . Now bait choices , maggot is awkward on this lake because it has a high Rudd population .i fished a maggot corn rig and a lob worm rig . I would be using maggot feeders to start with hoping it would keep the Rudd busy and the tench could home in on my hook baits .The sun was out it looked real tenchy but the Rudd were demolishing my baits . Plenty of false bleeps on the alarms .

Drennan maggot feeders in line my fave feeders .At lunch I changed over to method feeders . I kept the maggot corn pop up rig on one rod .And I used a fake pellet on the other .Apart from 2 Rudd nailed on a size 12 hook , No Tench 

Part 2 to Follow .