First opportunity this morning to go for Tench at my local venue. After a spring of cold south westerlies this morning drizzle and North westerly was a welcome change.
The calm conditions and drizzle kept all but one other water sports user at home and thankfully in the shallow water he decided on a different course of paddling for the rest of the morning.
Spent the first hour feeding the swim until the Rudd turned up, ended up with a dozen fish up to a pound but in great condition.
In between first Tench run ended in disappointment when the feeder broke the surface to show it tangled around the main line and sure enough metre out from the net the main line gave out at the feeder!
re-rigged, Rudd returned for the next hour then the "second " Tench took. Netted the fish an absolutely perfect fish more like a rugby ball it was one of those moments I wish I had embraced modern technology and had a phone to take the pic. Knelt down to unhook on the mat and there was another trace in her, my one! same fish had broken off an hour earlier. Both hooks removed and she powered off to hopefully successfully spawn.
More Rudd followed then a second 3lb Tench, by this time the ripple was developing along with the rain, then it went dead,the ducks were all on the bank going to sleep and it seems to be the same with the fish.
Couple more casts to use up the ground bait and the corn went to a couple of pigeons that had steadily got more confident during the morning.
Hopefully more northerlies coming to get the fish moving......
Couple of excellent fish this morning before the westerly went southerly and turned the bite off completely.
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