As of the time writing this blog, I am hunting the Tench on RDAA waters, but it has yet to go to plan. It is not anything I am doing this time as we all have seen the weather has been horrendous. Much of the time all the waters I wanted to fish have been flooded and inaccessible, so fishing the Wey for perch has yet to happen plus the waters at reading are only just getting to the point of being able to fish.
So here I am the date is the middle of April and I’m going fishing, the lake I'm fishing is an old deep pit called moat-lands now this hasn’t got a massive head of fish as I’m led to believe but they do get quite big so it makes the 140-mile round trip seem worth it, I know I’ve tried this before on my last club ticket but this feels different and people are more than willing to help as one fellow angler has given me a depth map. well the first trip didn't go as planned but it never does, the lake looked lovely and I was all on my own until someone called Dave turned up at about 11am, I had a good walk around with my waders on as the water was still well over the bank up to my crouch at one point so was a bit unnerving. I had nothing really to go on only what I had seen on YouTube, so I sat had a coffee, and watched the water and from where the sun rises from now is 5.45am so I have all day and I'm in no rush to set up, my only concern was the bitter northerly wind blowing across the lake, but then bosh the tail slaps went and got me standing up and wading out into the margins bosh slap of the tail I can see them far down to my left so I'll go and have another look this time making my way around the left-hand side of the lake, disaster there's a tent right in the swim where the Tench were playing B*****KS, so made way my back to the carpark and continued to take in the atmosphere and watched some more hoping they are moving around and guest what they moved even closer to me slapping their tails about 3-rod lengths down to my left ok I said to myself calm down and breath this is your moment lol, so one rod just short of the fish and one about 1/2 a rod length to the right of the fish I didn't want to stick it right on top it of their heads so now it's a waiting game.
Waiting is not one of my strong points so I pulled the rods back in refreshed and put them back out this is about 30 minutes after the first cast so I gave it another 30 minutes and continued this for the next couple of hours hoping to get something going, URMMMM NO nothing happening i was getting itchy feet and the activity had stopped, at about 10 or 11 am another angler turned up and was very nice in giving me some pointers, he said don't be afraid to stick the rods straight out in front of you as he has had fished from that part of the lake before so again rods refreshed and swung back in the direction i was told and given the same treatment as before but still no joy, One thing I did notice the maggots were coming back untouched so small fish wasn't a problem, whether that's a bad thing or the lack of small fish is a good thing i'm not sure scratching my head as what to do next, this was my first time on this lake I was up for trying as many different styles as possible so the float rod was set up next with Polaris float attached down to a 6g Olivetti with 4 to 5-inch hook link with a size 12 super specialist hook lying on the bottom with a couple of dendrobaena as hook bait, I tried and i tried trust me when i said i tried because i did, different parts of my swim was bombarded with these worms and the peg next door but not a sniff. Being a deep natural lake, I know it will take much longer to warm up and get going. Still, I wanted to try so all is not lost because the conversations I had with the two anglers about this lake made me realize that I am on the deepest side of the lake, and with the sun rising behind my back and warming the other side of the lake all day long I was in the wrong place. Still, seeing the Tench slap that paint brush tail on the surface I thought I'll fish where the fish dictated.
This isn't over I have a plan of attack now I know where I need to be and what bait I will be using (casters/blood worm) plus my tactics have to change, so the feeders will be left in the tackle box, and out comes the inline leads small PVA bags or mesh filled with casters, for hook bait, I will be using fake floating casters this way they will not have to be changed if I get any nuisance fish(if there is any) or I catch, then dipped in the bloodworm glug that's it with the raking I'll be doing stirring up the bottom my little parcels of goodness should get them down on the bait.
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So this is
part one of my Tinca tales, hopefully, I will get a fish to show you, but it's
not the end of the world if I don't as I do like the excitement of trying these
harder lakes,( and the 140 plus round trip) don't get me wrong I like catching fish but I would rather it be
a bit more of a challenge than a method feeder chucked to the island.The next
session is in a couple of weeks let us hope it warms up for me, and I have a
fish to show you. part two of this blog will be after my next session until
then tight lines and enjoy your angling.
The Gudgeon🎣❤️
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