I’ve just completed the last of three days coaching with PAYP (Positive Action for Young People) at Twynersh.

Plenty of fish were caught by both young people and staff (the vulnerable children on these courses are always accompanied by a key worker) .

One young lad who is a regular on these courses caught a three pound tench on a whip with a three pound hook length with only a little help from assistant coach Lee Blundell.

PAYP student with tench

These youngsters really enjoy the courses and I have had teachers ask me how I can get them to sit still for a couple of hours while fishing when they won’t sit still for ten minutes in a classroom. I always explain that in school they are being asked to comply with ten thousand years of recent civilisation but I am appealing to the million and a half years of hunter gatherer ape underneath. Not so far underneath sometimes.

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