🎣 🪴Being taught an angling lesson by Ian Clarke, followed by some gardening and meeting up with Ian again
It’s been a while since I fished with my friend, Ian Clarke.
Well, as someone who gets out pretty much every day, with sessions fast and furious it certainly feels that way.
Meeting up at a lake, we had one thing on our respective minds.
Tench.
Well, the final score was 5-1 to Ian, so, on this occasion, he certainly gave a thrashing.
At least I wasn’t a blanker though.
My tackle approach was as follows below, with bait alternating between four white maggots and a grain of corn.
I fished over brown crumb/mixed maggots/corn at twenty metres.
Tackle: Fox Barbel Special 1.5 test curve rod and an Okuma Zeon reel. 6lb Maxima Chameleon, with a six-inch hook-length created by a small shot and an 8mm bead. Above that was a 1/2 ounce lead. Size 10 Drennan Super Specialist hook.
Nature notes: Swifts c.20 over the lake.
Once I got home, I did some gardening, and there’s more of that in the video.
Then, I met up with Ian again.
This time he came round for lunch, followed by a long binoculars walk around the valley where I live.
A good day all round.