First 48hr tench fishing session of 2013

Call me foolish or what it seemed a good time to start the tench fishing.

The warm air had been around for something like one week now and it must be warming the lakes inducing the tench to start to feed. So I decided to start on the lake of my choice. It’s well over 100 acres in size and about 12ft all over. So it’s big!

Last year I fished it once and caught some splendid tench of a high average size and I was lucky to be there and saw some monsters while they were spawning.

I decided to use three rods and so two with method feeders and caster and one with in-line maggot feeder. Thinking that I would bait up two different areas.

Now arriving full of optimism and knowing that the wind would blow from the south west and then south I set up the bivvy with the wind blowing directly on my shore. Surely they would follow the warm water and feed.

The forecast was for moderate winds and having no cover on my bank I thought it would be a good test for the new bivvy. Little did I know that we would have gales for 48hrs which would whip the lake into a mini sea with waves to match. Spray cascaded over the bivvy for most of the 48hrs with wind buffeting the new bivvy. Rod and indicators were permanently wet after the first evening.

I’m not going to say much more other than the indicators didn’t give a bleep from any fish, plenty from the waves though. The wind did blow and blow however the bivvy held steadfast.

The first evening there were no swallows however by the end of the second day of southerlies there were something like 50 flying over the lake.

What I can do is show a few photo’s of the session.

Night glow