Since moving to “paradise” I have been looking for a local venue that provides some good tench fishing and on advice I joined Newbury Angling Association and the 16th June found me fishing one of their waters, Knott’s lake, that had been closed for their voluntarily imposed closed season.
I am ashamed to say I blanked, as did most of the other anglers but I returned a couple of days later with a bit of local information and fished the opposite end of the lake in the deeper water. I found the tench but not in the margins where I had been told and they were not interested in the big baits I had been told to use.
I finally made contact with feeding fish, two rod lengths out in eleven feet of water and caught about eight or nine on float fished red maggots.
Not the prettiest fish, nor the biggest but great fun on a centrepin and a float rod.
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