🎣 📻The one that got away and Bayside Radio
I’ve enjoyed my recent small pond sessions very much indeed, particularly the one where I caught the bigger perch.
However, the challenge of the lake was calling and so, nice and early, I went through my usual pre-session routine of loading the car and making the flask, before setting off for the venue in question.
It was a beautiful day, no wind at all, and therefore It was great to see the surface of the lake bubbling away like a jacuzzi, as the tench had their heads down.
Well, maybe in my dreams.
It hasn’t been fishing very well for a number of weeks now and there wasn’t even a single patch of bubbles anywhere as far as I could see over the lake.
I realised, as I have done on so many of the recent trips to that particular place, that I was fishing for just one tench.
I threw out brown crumb and sweetcorn cast over the top, settled back, made my first cup of tea of the day and waited.
And waited.
Until it was time to go home…
Then, right at the very end, I had a bite and it was a case of fish on.
Unfortunately, it took me into some weed as you can see from the video, and I never recovered from that, ending up with a hook-pull.
I said that it was possibly a carp, however on reflection it could well have been a foul-hooked tench, because they do seem to react more powerfully than the ones that are hooked in a more conventional way.
Either way, I’ll never know, but it certainly inspired me to get back at it and put that wrong right, so to speak.
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: Two swifts feeding over the lake.
Although I didn’t catch on this occasion, there was still lots to discuss in the afternoon, as I recorded my weekly chats with Jeff Pearson for his Bayside Radio show.
Based in Colwyn Bay, in north Wales, we talk fishing, which goes out on a Thursday afternoon followed by Welsh football a day later
In fact, with four Welsh clubs in European competition this week, there was plenty to talk about all round.