We had decided to try a local Pit, one that we still know very little about. First port of call was to run a rake through the swim a couple of times, after this the swim was baited with hemp and left for a while. It wasn't long before we both had the tell tale pin prick bubbles of feeding Tench fizzing away in front of us. We both set up a rod and fixed spool reel loaded with 6lb line and decided to fish floats tight to the margins. As the venue is very weedy and full of natural food we opted for inch long lobworm sections as bait. Would have preferred red maggots though!

It wasn't long before we both started receiving knocks and twitches on the floats and it didn't take long for the float slide away out of sight. My float was away first, this turning out to be a perfect conditioned Tench tipping the scales in at 5lb 8oz, making it my largest Tench from the venue. After this initial action in my spot, little else happened; Dads swim on the other hand came alive! In the next 45 minutes he landed Tench of 4lb 8oz, 4lb 15oz, 5lb, 5lb 2oz! It was great to see him catch a few, as our previous sessions recently have been a right nightmare, what with torrential rain and flying boats! The strange thing was that we were fishing side by side, I was covering the left hand margin, whilst Dad was covering the right hand margin of the swim. I couldn't understand why the fish kept re-visiting his swim but were now totally ignoring mine? After having a think about it, I could only put it down to the fact there was a lot more weed being brought in where Dad was fishing by the rake, so most probably this area was very rich in natural food; perhaps the hemp was not attracting them to the spot like I first thought?

We left the water when we could no longer see the float tip, by this time we were both well hungry ourselves! I reckon 100lb bags are definitely on the cards after seeing just how fish were crashing last night! What's more, it may be the venue to beat my 6lb 4oz drain PB. Perhaps I may give it a go tomorrow night....