I have just got back from a day’s coaching at Black Park in Slough. The day was funded and organised by the Environment Agency and was open to the public who were given half an hour of free coaching with one of the five coaches who attended.
The fishing was hard, with very few bites. My first student was an Asian lady who fished instead of her daughter who refused to have anything to do with the sport due to a fear of electric eels. Her mum had one bite which resulted in twenty feet of elastic being pulled out of my pole before the hook length parted.
The rest of the day continued in a downhill direction until my last student, a young lady named Lauren, who hooked and landed a fine 4lb male Tench, with a little help from me.
Lauren and her 4lb male Tench
Update:
I had a lovely email from Stewart, Lauren’s dad earlier today and he has kindly agreed to let me post it here, along with additional photos from Matt Hart at the Environment Agency:
Stewart also forwarded an email from Matt Hart, Technical Officer (Fisheries) from the Environment Agency who hosted the event (and took the two photos above). Here’s a snippet:Here are the pictures of you and Lauren at Black Park yesterday afternoon.
Lauren and her “fish of a lifetime”!Thank you for your patience and expertise, she loved the experience as you can tell by the photos.
Please do feel free to use them as you wish, but do send me the link of your blog, so as we can show all of our friends!
Thank you again for making a little girl, very very happy.
As I mentioned yesterday, Lauren’s tench really is a fish of a lifetime. I’ve never caught a tench that big and a number of my colleagues that are really keen coarse anglers are now planning trips to Black Park to catch some tench.It’s when you get days like yesterday, meet people like Stewart and Lauren and receive such positive feedback that make the early mornings and long drives worth every minute.
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