A pair of turbo tench

[fullcreel]

I popped down to Crockerton for a couple of hours, this eve. I felt lucky that one of my fav pegs, no 7 was free. I set up and got chatting to the chap on the next peg, he yold me that the previous chap in no 7 had chucked in his remaining bait, heavy feeding has never been wise at the Crock. Suffice to say that I struggled for just over an hour, with three fish on meat, 1 perch, and two roach.
They say the grass is greener on the other side, so i popped over to the otherside, in time for the sun to pop out.
I set up in no 15, a swim I had not fished before. Feeding was the usual micro halibut pellets. Hookbait was a small peice of Lidl's bacon grill, wonderufl stuff. After a few minutes the float slid away, and one of the lakes notorious turbo powered tench gave a good account of itself, at around 3.8.0 I was happy. A few minutes later I had another bite, this fish I could not stop, one of the lakes bigger carp I thought, I thought my pole would break, eventually the hook knot gave way, after setting up a new hook, I managed another tench, a little smaller. but equally determined. A bream about 3lb followed, then I think I made a mistake. I had some very small peices of meat, to which I'd added some crushed bemp, then shaken, I added some of this to the swim and had absolutely nothing for the remainder of the session.
Suprised, I thought it would be a good loose feed. Lessonlearnt I guess.

[Fishing Forum Admin]

Well done on the tench and sound like a nice session

[pingu]

sounds pleasent enough

dave

[Norfolkboy]

Nice one

[Twiddler]

Well done on the turbo tench, I had a couple of them too and they do go like a steam train at Crockerton. Superb fun on the pole.

Steve told me never to use hemp there, for some unexplained reason the fish don't seem to like it there.

[Greenheart]

Nice one Matt. Meats definately the top bait at Crockerton, although I prefer princes or plumrose luncheon meat. Pity about that Carp though....