August 2024



🎣 💰 📻 Tench fishing, premium bonds and Bayside Radio

📹 Watch the accompanying video

I enjoyed my sessions yesterday pursuing perch with prawn, however, I decided to do some tench fishing this morning.

I won’t be going beyond August in pursuit of the species, so it is a case of making the most of the month.

On my usual lake, I baited up an area about twenty metres from the bank.

You can follow the session via the video.

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 8mm bead. Above that was a 1/2 ounce lead. Size 10 Drennan Super Specialist hook. 

Nature notes: Great black-backed gull over the lake.

Once home, my wife and I checked the premium bonds draw.

I don’t know what she’s going to do with her £175, I’m not sure how to spend my £0.

Then, I recorded my weekly fishing slot with Jeff Pearson for his Bayside Radio show.

I did this much earlier than usual, due to football travel over the next few days.