The ones that got away, the radio and gardening
🎣 Although the lake that I am spending a lot of time on is fishing slowly at present, nevertheless I hooked three tench on this morning’s session.
Can you believe it but I lost every single one.
It could be that or more may have been hooked outside of the mouth but for all three to be in that position is highly unlikely.
At the end of the day, you just have to put it down to one of those things.
I will definitely be back in the morning though, to try and put that wrong right.
🪱 Tackle & bait: 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 8mm bead.
Above that was a 1/2 ounce lead. Size 10 Drennan Super Specialist hook.
Single grain of corn over brown crumb and sweetcorn, twenty metres out.
🦆 Nature notes: Four swifts. House martins (c.25).
📻 I would have stayed fishing longer, but I had to be back for my weekly Bayside Radio chats with Jeff Pearson.
Based in Colwyn Bay, in north Wales, most of the questions we get relate to sea fishing.
The two this time round concerned beads in rig-making and multiplier set-ups.
Both the angling slots and the Welsh football ones are popular, and that’s why they have continued over the last couple of years or so.
I certainly enjoy talking about both subjects.
🪴 After a visit to Homebase, in Wolverhampton, where I bought a seed feeder, some tape and a bag of gravel, you can see the application of the latter in the accompanying video.
I do enjoy gardening, and it’s very much a little and often approach that I take, which I find keeps the pot of enthusiasm bubbling away nicely.
If you neglect your garden for a prolonged period of time, and then one day you are forced into doing something about it, because it’s out of control, then it can very easily become a burden.
However, the constant small job here and there means that it is always a pleasure.
📹 Footage from the water’s edge, the radio show and the garden.