On the right side of the tench line — Pottering around the garden — Interviewing Ryley Oakley, who has signed his first professional contract — See you at a game this week?

As always, once at the water’s edge the first thing I did was to mix some brown crumb and mixed maggots.

I then threw the bait between two and three rod-lengths out into the lake.

There was a gentle breeze at times, so it wasn’t always possible to spot tench feeding bubbles.

The first few fish were roach and they were decent enough ones as well.

Then I had a tench on but very briefly, as it parted company with the hook after a few seconds.

Talking of the hook, the tackle used is in the accompanying video.