This clip was taken in June 2020. I'd tried for 6 months trying for pike spinning and deadbaits but not even a touch so I decided to give roach fishing a go using a 13' Tenkara rod, 11' x 12 lb fluorocarbon main line line, 4' of 4lb fluorocarbon tippet, a thingmabobber float and a size 16 barbless hook. I just used bread as bait.
25 July 2021 Lots of small fish caught this morning on maggots; over 20 anyway mostly roach with a couple of perch as well. Tried tares for the larger roach but no success on this method. Still it was my first try on seeds so I'll just need to persevere.
02 August 2021 I had some frozen maggots, castors and tares from my last session so I thought I'd give it them a go this session. The castors hooked up nicely and had a small roach on the first cast although it slipped the hook before I could net it. Moved onto tares and lost three nice roach but managed to land another three so I was quite pleased with this session.
05 August 2021 Fishing a 4 hour session this evening mostly for roach but have two rods out for pike as well. I had 4 runs this evening but only managed to land a small jackpike. Two rods had runs at the same time and managed to get my Tenkara line wrapped around one of the pike rods; needless to say I lost this one in the weeds. I did manage to catch a few roach and perch so all in all a good session.
08 August 2021 My early morning session started with maggots, then castors then tares. It was pretty slow going but managed 5 fish; two small perch and three roach. The biggest one was caught on a tare so quite pleased.
13 August 2021 I left my bike alarm I use for pike fishing at the fishing peg when I packed up yesterday evening, so came down early and picked it up and fished for an hour for roach and caught 11, mostly small ones but a couple of recent sized ones and here's the biggest;
15 August 2021 I caught only 7 small roach and perch this morning but perhaps fishing for both roach and pike on the same peg isn't a great idea. I've acquired a second hand 12' float rod so I'll give that a go for the roach next time and I'll try for pike only if I give up on the roach.
17 August 2021 This afternoon's session I'll be trying mostly tares and some occasional maggots. Got some nice roach although not that many fo r a five hour session, however I did miss loads so all in all a good afternoon on the water.
19 August 2021 Fished a 3 hour evening session and caught 9 fish mostly roach and a couple of perch. Nothing of any great size but one or decent decent roach caught on tares. A pike continually lunged at the catch when I was bringing them to hand and eventually it nailed one and wouldn't let go. Eventually the hook came out of the roach's mouth and it was off. Just as well as I was playing it on my Tenkara rod and it could have easily broke it
24 August 2021 Evening session but np significant catches just around 8 or 9 small roach and a few perch. Still it's always good to get out for a few hours
02 September 2021 Mostly fishing for roach on the tares and maggots. I was given some sweetcorn so I gave that a try as well. Never used sweetcorn before so was pleased as punch when a roach of around 7 inches came to hand. Caught another half dozen or so smallish roach, nothing big on maggots. Couldn't tempt anything on tares.
19 September 2019 Not one of my better days. Not only did I break the tip of my Tenkara rod, I blanked as well. Its not as if I didn't get any bites..I got quite a few... just didn't connect with any that's all.
