Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service
Kenny's Angling Guiding Service

8th April Moor lake Great Somerford, tench at last.

I must admit last night I just threw the stuff in the garage and had a hot meal and a shower. I was tired from getting up at 5am and wasting a day on Horseshoe. Well it wasn’t wasted it just wasn’t productive.

Today I thought about a leisurely start after breakfast and tidying things up. I opted to change from my Drennan 2lb t/c bream and tench rods to a some 0.5lb fox duo rods. These little rods I use for river roaching with a quiver, but they also have a solid top which is idea for small river chubbing and close in tench feeder work.

I arrived at the lake to be greated by a few other anglers having the same idea as myself. It would seem that the tench had just started to awake. A few had been caught during the last week or two. The gravel pit is about 7 acres with a uniform depth of about 6-7 ft. It has a marginal shelf that drops of to these depths, and it’s here where the tench patrol during the summer.

So my method was to be a short helicopter rig on one rod and a method feeder on the other as a comparison. These were to be fished about 4 rod lengths out. The method mix was going to be the same as yesterday.

Moor lake in May last year.

The sun was shinning really strong but I had the good sense to take a brolly so that I had some shade. I cast out at 10.30am after saying  hello to everyone around the lake. Soon by 10.45 I had a run on the method mix rod that had the rod hooped over and the clutch ticking nicely. These soft rods are a dream to use particularly when using light hook links. Soon after giving and taking line she was ready for netting. I don’t normally weigh the fish from here but I’m being told that they are gaining in size. This was was a wonderful green and yellow bellied tench of 4lbs 14oz, which no signs at all of carrying spawn.

 I was fishing so close that I could catapult out the required hemp. As the day continued to warm the tench fed sprodically mainly on the method mix rod. Here I was using a size 14 hook and two rubber maggots tied to a hair rig.

Unusually there was no fizzing in the swim or any signs of activity, so I guess they were not fully on the feed.

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In all I managed to catch 7 tench, 5 on the method swimfeeder and 2 on the helicopter rig. Not sure how conclusive a test this is. But it’s interesting.

During the day at intervals after I cast the method and swim feeder out, a few feet down wind some rudd would put in an appearance on the surface. This I think was primarily due to me having some right old ropey maggots and casters. Then at 6pm the same thing happened then when they disappeared I would get a bite from a rudd. I can only assume that they followed the rising casters down to the source which in this case was the feeders. I had a right old 30 minutes or more and at times had a hard job to keep two rods in the water and often the a bite would come before I could clip the bobbin on.

I suppose I had 10 rudd up to about 1lb in that feeding frenzy before they cleared off.

So a good session for my second choice of lakes for my tench fishing. I have to say though if I caught an 8lb fish from this lake it would be the same as a double from Horseshoe. Think I might let Horseshoe settle down for a week or two as reading my diary tells me that the fishing didn’t take off last year until May.

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