On Saturday 4th June I went to Bury Hill with an adult client of mine, Rob Blake. Rob is returning to coarse angling after a long break and has been out with me twice already and is turning into a capable angler. I found a rod for him last summer but due to his work commitments I have been unable to deliver it to him until now. So to make the occasion even more special I booked a boat for us both on the main lake in the hope of catching some tench.
We met at seven thirty am. after Rob had experienced some trouble finding the place and we were soon out on the water. All the other boats were already at the far end of the lake in the area known as the jungle, so we took the last boat left and paddled out to the down wind end of the lake to join them.
The trouble with getting the last boat is that the paddles left were broken and the fixtures for the anchors needed some serious maintenance. Once out in the lake the wind picked up and the mud weights provided would not hold the bottom and the boat was blown off station several times during the day. These boats must create a lot of income for the owner through out the year, its a shame they are not equipped or maintained better.
The tench were not feeding and the other boats only caught two fish all day, Rob caught three bream and was very pleased to christen his new rod. At Rob’s insistence I did some fishing because the sport was so slow and I lost one tench and landed a very fit eight pound common carp after it had towed the boat around for a while.
I really enjoy the company of this bloke, he is so keen and ready to learn, an ideal pupil. It is so rewarding to see him developing as an angler. It was a shame that more fish were not caught but this area of the lake gets a lot of pressure and the weather had not been ideal in the previous few days. The bream took float fished sweetcorn but the carp took blood worm paste, a thing I have been experimenting with this year. Watch this space!
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