September 5th saw the children return to school and gave me a chance to refurbish my coaching tackle after the rigors of the summer holidays. Float rigs had to be retied, split shot resorted in to sizes and new hooks and floats purchased.
Less than a week later I was coaching again, this time with the older pupils from Reading E2E. Three days had been booked, 13th,14th and 15th at Frobury Fisheries at Kingsclere near Newbury. Only two lads turned up but they were both very keen and I was able to pay them more attention than normal.
I tried a slightly different approach than previously, feeding lots of hemp and assorted small trout pellets at the beginning then feeding heavilly with sweetcorn. I would normally advise against feeding lots of sweetcorn as it can quickly fill the fish up but this water is so heavilly stocked I really don’t believe this is likely.
This proved to be the case with one lad catching fifty small carp, six tench and three rudd in a little less than three hours.
During the three days both students progressed from whips to rods and reels and are keen to learn more about our sport.
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