Arrived to empty banks at 2pm. It gets dark at 5pm at the mo, so we got rods in the water asap.
Usual light leger and quiver tip for me / light leger and float for mike.
There were loads of floaters on the surface so someone must have thrown them in earlier in the day. This seemed to have spurred some feeding, which surprised us, as it was quite cold, (but thankfully, no wind).
At 4:40, I got a steaming run on the leger rod, that turned out to be a 3lb 2oz male Tench. Lovely :-)
15 mins later, the same rod went off from the same position and bait, with another Tench. ALSO 3lb 2oz exactly (fish cloning?). This was a female, and far darker in color.
Mike had a classic lift bite on his float rig, that turned out to what we 'think' might be a hybrid Roach / Bream'. The picture doesn't do the fins justice, which were very red indeed, making us think it was yet another big roach for mike, but something about the shape of the head just made us think twice.
So a brace of lovely tench, an odd genetic thingy, owl calls in the static winter dark, and fresh tea - suits us :-)
Packed up about 7:30 as it just started to rain.
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