🎣 The importance of rest and an evening tench session
I started the day tench fishing on a lake and I ended it in the same way as well.
I didn’t do too much in between either; I worked on my blog, went for a walk with my dog and my wife in the valley and had a nap.
Looking back over last week I realised that I worked 140+ hours.
That, of course, includes travel (four games and as many nations visited and lots of miles covered) and time away, but nevertheless it’s still a considerable number of hours, therefore I decided that a lazy day was the way to go.
Rest is a biblical principle, and in the opening verses of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, we find the importance of taking time out is endorsed.
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
Genesis 2:2
God doesn’t need to rest, but we do, and that’s the principle laid down in the Bible.
Mind you, I’ve got nothing to complain about, as I’ve just had a period of six weeks without any work at all.
I felt like a schoolteacher in the summer holidays.
It was only a short session this evening, but within 20 minutes of casting out I had a take, as a tench picked up the grain of corn fished over brown crumb and sweetcorn.
However, the hook and the fish very quickly decided they didn’t like each other.
Would I get a second bite of the cherry?
No, I wouldn’t.
It’s a fine line sometimes and, in this two-hour session, I was just on the wrong side of it.
There was just one other angler on there and, chatting to me as he left, he had also blanked.
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. Bait was a single grain of corn.
Nature notes: Swifts (c.50) over the lake.