smufter
Well-known member
Not being funny, but does anybody else get bored with catching????
I went out early yesterday morning to one of our club waters, holds a good head of decent sized Tench and there are some mid twenties Carp in there too.
Started fishing on the bottom, had a couple of nice takes which resulted in a lovely conditioned Tench which must have gone around the 6lb mark. Unhooked him and slipped him back in the water.
Settled down to fish again and there was a lot of commotion further up the bank with a biggish carp feeding on the surface. I quickly took the weights off of one of my rods and tried a little stalking, one half hearted attempt at a take, but nothing.
I then walked further down the lake, I was on my own (the peeing rain must have put everybody else off) and noticed that the bay at the far end was rammed out with feeding Tench. Water was gin clear and it was quite shallow so I had a good view of what was going on.
Stuck a reasonable sized lump of bread flake on and cast out to just beyond where they were feeding and watched it sink slowly down through the water. As soon as it settled on the bottom, a Tench came in, picked it up and made off with it. Hooked into it and it was another lovely specimen, in perfect condition and was a similar weight to the first one. Put up a heck of a scrap as it felt the hook and tried to make it’s way into the lilly pads close by but I managed to keep him clear.
The swim settled down and within 3 or 4 minutes the Tench were back again. Another lump of breadflake, exactly the same result! All in all, I pulled 9 Tench out within the space of about 30 minutes, all reasonable sized (between 5 and 7lb at a guess) but I hate to admit it....I was getting bored! It was too easy. I know that I should be thankful, because there are plenty of times I’ve blanked in the past. But I don’t know why I felt this way.
As I say, it was peeing it down with rain, I was covered in mud and was tired as I hadn’t had much sleep the night before and had got up at 3.30am for this session.
Just wondered if anybody else had ever got bored catching fish???
I went out early yesterday morning to one of our club waters, holds a good head of decent sized Tench and there are some mid twenties Carp in there too.
Started fishing on the bottom, had a couple of nice takes which resulted in a lovely conditioned Tench which must have gone around the 6lb mark. Unhooked him and slipped him back in the water.
Settled down to fish again and there was a lot of commotion further up the bank with a biggish carp feeding on the surface. I quickly took the weights off of one of my rods and tried a little stalking, one half hearted attempt at a take, but nothing.
I then walked further down the lake, I was on my own (the peeing rain must have put everybody else off) and noticed that the bay at the far end was rammed out with feeding Tench. Water was gin clear and it was quite shallow so I had a good view of what was going on.
Stuck a reasonable sized lump of bread flake on and cast out to just beyond where they were feeding and watched it sink slowly down through the water. As soon as it settled on the bottom, a Tench came in, picked it up and made off with it. Hooked into it and it was another lovely specimen, in perfect condition and was a similar weight to the first one. Put up a heck of a scrap as it felt the hook and tried to make it’s way into the lilly pads close by but I managed to keep him clear.
The swim settled down and within 3 or 4 minutes the Tench were back again. Another lump of breadflake, exactly the same result! All in all, I pulled 9 Tench out within the space of about 30 minutes, all reasonable sized (between 5 and 7lb at a guess) but I hate to admit it....I was getting bored! It was too easy. I know that I should be thankful, because there are plenty of times I’ve blanked in the past. But I don’t know why I felt this way.
As I say, it was peeing it down with rain, I was covered in mud and was tired as I hadn’t had much sleep the night before and had got up at 3.30am for this session.
Just wondered if anybody else had ever got bored catching fish???