The mild spell continues and Josh and I went back to Twynersh the following week, this time he used a rod and reel. Three years ago I bought four Shakespeare Valor match rods for coaching, each twelve feet in length and I have been very pleased with these rods ever since. I have even fished with them myself with my favourite centrepins when trees overhead would have made a longer rod difficult.
I set Josh up with one of these rods and a Shimano fixed spool reel loaded with four pound line and a three pound hook length. The hook size was sixteen and the bait was double red maggot. He soon started catching good quality roach.
I started to notice bubbles in the swim and as they were in quite small groups I suspected bream to be the culprits and so stepped up the feed adding soaked pellets to the menu. The result was this fine five pound seven ounce tench.
He landed this fish on his own without any physical assistance from me - a real achievement for one so young and lacking in experience.
I look forward to working with this lad in the future.
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