With my French trip to Nash Resorts looming, I had decided on a quick hit session to see if I could get myself a couple before I left the following weekend. Myself, Winky and Chris arrived at our chosen venue just before dusk, and as usual I was given the job of chief livebait snatcher. This can in itself be a nightmare at times, but luckily within 30 minutes I had bagged enough 5" Rudd for an evening session.

Due to the still intense weed, all rods were rigged up with free running sunken paternosters, with the baits fished about three feet off of the bottom. Wink was the first one in, but this soon turned out to be an Eel around 2lb with a 5" Rudd hanging from its gob! The next run came one of my rods. The drop-off fell and line steadily left the open bale arm, an instant strike was made, and after a pretty unspectacular fight, I soon landed a nice fish of 7lb 8oz.

Straight after this fish, Chris lost a decent fish and then Wink latched into a smaller fish of around 6lb. After this however, everything went quiet, and the Zeds just disappeared. This is often the case with Zander, often you won't receive a bite for a long period of time, and then out of the blue action can start on all rods. I really must get out for them more often!