They’re looking magnificent, by the way, densely-packed leaves and big white flowers gathering in the early sunlight.
Depending on the bottom, tench do give themselves away and that was the case this time, with feeding bubbles on the surface of the pool.
However, as we all know, just because you have hungry fish in the swim that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s simply a case of casting out and catching.
That was the case this time, as it was late in the session when I struck at a pluck on the rod tip and found myself playing a tench.
Giving it line, it took me straight into dense weed, where it was firmly stuck.