How did you get on?

[nottskev]

Two blanks on the tench lake lately, but they have to wake up sometime, so I thought I'd give it another try, leaving it til 3pm so as to fish the warmer end of the day. I set up to float fish in 7' of water off the rod end, and I wasn't feeling optimistic when an hour and a half passed without a bite. I'd never feeder fished here before - usually the fish are all down the sides and the lake fills with soft weed early in the summer putting legerring off the agenda. But there's little or no weed yet, so I'd taken a bomb rod and a few small feeders to try.

I set up the Carbonactive 10' with a little running pellet feeder - I'd made half a dozen after reading a Dave Coster piece about them - but I'd made them a bit too small and light. It proved fiddly to fill and didn't hold enough bait, so that came off and was replaced with another creation home-made from pop bottle plastic.

This had only a thin strip of lead, but with a bit more bait in was easy to plop in the same spot 20 yds out. Bingo! the missing tench were all further out than usual, and the bait had only been in two minutes when the first one of the year was on

I kept feeding and trying the inside on the float, but never had a bite. Meanwhile, the tench out in the lake were not all that keen, but casting and twitching the bait a few inches induced a few bites. The seeds on the water - there are trees all around - were clogging in the rings, which slowed things down a bit too. Still, I feel the year has been properly started now.

 

[mikench]

Wow! Worth the wait Kev.

 

[flightliner]

Glad the water has come to life Kev!

 

[seth49]

Cool and windy yesterday as I arrived at usual fishery first one there as usual, which gives me pick of swims, with the strong winds only one bank was sheltered so set up there, first job was to rake the swim and then get set up, feeder rod as a sleeper on alarm, and pole to fish at top kit plus two sections, chopped worm and ground bait with half a worm as bait.

Quiet for first half hour and then bubbles fizzing in the swim indicates the arrival of the tench, in with the tench I also had four crucians which were very welcome, also a few F1s, and the usual skimmers, plus a nice roach as well.

I’m having a really good year with the tench, last year I had 144 total, this year with today’s total of 13, takes me up to
107 so far, best one just under 2 1/2lbs, there’s very few big tench were I fish so I’m doing ok, also landed one carp on the feeder plus lost two at the net, so another good day, it’s the syndicate water tomorrow so hoping for more tench etc,

 

[tommos16]

Disclaimer: I like Bream. I enjoy targeting them and catching them by design.

Now that being said, I do not enjoy the following: catching the same one-eyed Bream THRICE whilst Tench fishing on a small lake supposedly full of Tench and no Bream. Must be the only Bream in, and it is clearly thriving. God bless it.

Mustn’t

grumble about my other “by-catches” - lovely Golden Crucians

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[nottskev]

Hmm That's not a bream, Tommos. It's a nice fish with pretty scales, but it's a carp of some description. Someone out there will be more confident of its parentage.

 

[tommos16]

Hmm That's not a bream, Tommos. It's a nice fish with pretty scales, but it's a carp of some description. Someone out there will be more confident of its parentage.

That’s a crucian I believe Kev, or I hope haha. I let the Bream go out the net every time but perhaps he wants a bit of fortune and fame!


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[john step]

Rained all day. Cosy under brolly on the buzzers. A few of everybody's favourite fish on here ( ) over the last couple of days. A few low doubles.
Most look the same but I had to try to join the 2022s and use a phone camera I have just bought.
Edited. So much for my foray into modern technology. The second pic is not the one I wanted to post. Its an old photo. HO HUM!

 

[mikench]

Gordon and I met up at a known fishery which we like and which is in beautiful countryside.

The fishing was poor but that surprisingly did not detract from a very enjoyable day. We were on adjacent pegs with no trees or bushes obscuring vision or hindering conversation and we chatted a lot. I fished incompetently and missed several fish including a carp which snapped the elasticated stem on my guru feeder. I also failed to replace pellets after each cast through plain idleness. I finished with 5 skimmers and a nice mirror of 8.5lb which got itself tangled with Gordon's float rig and which took a while to unravel whilst in the net. In all the excitement I forgot to take a pic.

Gordon had around 10 skimmers and just one roach. It was very breezy but not cold. We both enjoyed the occasion despite the fishing. Thanks Gordon for a lovely day.

 

[Pete Shears]

Another morning on the local reservoir with a strong cold westerly but decided to fish into it with two method feeder rods for tench using a brolly to deflect the worst of it - the car said 4.5C without windchill.
Nothing rolling, four or five cormorants hunting in groups. Eventually had a screaming run on plastic corn and connected with a hard fighting fish,tench I think, but after about a minutes it found enough weed to dislodge the hook. A while later another run on the plastic corn had a rather battered bream of about 3lb landed to save a blank.
Plenty of birds, robins,wrens and buzzards being harassed by crows.

 

[seth49]

Another good day on the syndicate water today, slow to start with before I started catching the tench, but I did have a few roach and perch, before the float buried and the elastic came shooting out of the pole, a carp on single red maggot, the size 11 dura slip stretching for yards, did manage to turn it away from the willow tree which has fallen in the water, finally netted it after a good scrap, a common of ten and a quarter pounds.

Then I started catching some tench, they wanted worm today, not red maggots like last week, had a few nice ones up to just over two pounds, together with some perch, also had the biggest F1 yet, at 5lbs 2ozs good scrap of that too.

I finished with 20 tench, 1 carp, 1F1, and 26 various silvers, a really enjoyable day.

 

[David Rogers 3]

6lb bream and a 6lb tench from the local estate lake yesterday

 

[barbelboi]

Back over the gravel pit next week - this week a bit of fish spotting over the stream in the back fields. It wasn't difficult - they were everwhere after the insects........

 

[Pete Shears]

Six more bream around the 3lb mark this morning fishing the opposite bank to yesterday sheltered from the wind by a thick blackthorn hedge.
Five showed marks etc from spawning - no tench grrrrrr.

 

[john step]

A windy day on my club lake. 1.5TC Shakey rod and a mini strawberry boilie brought the downfall of this 22lb 12 oz mirror.
Maybe getting used to the camera on the phone.

 

[barbelboi]

Maybe getting used to the camera on the phone.

Unlike your foot - Nice fish............................

 

[flightliner]

Up v early again this morning, all prepped last night so I was off to the Tench water again, god, that walk to the lake does'nt get any shorter but I've done a job on my trolley and the result is one thats much easier
to handle and its cut down the walk by two minutes. Result!!!
Rods set up, swim baited, so just the wait for the Tench to find the bait.
It, not they, did, along with a couple of line bites a little earlier was all I had.
Somewhat dissapointed I was back home at 5pm.
Six trips for a total of sixteen Tench, and ten point eight miles of walking to my swim.
Its been enjoyable but as ever I feel the need for a change so maybe one of Yorkshires famously wide canals for a last time before the season opens.

 

[Philip]

22lb 12 oz mirror. Maybe getting used to the camera on the phone.

Thats another cracking looking Carp.

Now you have the hang of the phone camera
maybe it's worth getting setup for self take? Some of those Carp you are catching are stunning and merit a pose.

 

[john step]

Thats another cracking looking Carp.

Now you have the hang of the phone camera
maybe it's worth getting setup for self take? Some of those Carp you are catching are stunning and merit a pose.

Thanks. A couple of mates have been instructing me about getting a selfie stick set up and something called a whistle App. I shall investigate.

 

[john step]

Unlike your foot - Nice fish............................

Steady onRome wasnt built in a day.