The weather had been cold for the proceeding days so the prospects weren't that good - and we had to start on the carp lake as there is no night fishing on the tench pool. There was no one fishing the lake when we arrived so we had the pick of swims and started fishing in earnest at about 5pm. The only run either of us had came to one of my rods fishing double tutti-frutti boilies, screaming off at about 6:45pm it was a PB common weighing in at 12lb 3oz. >
The temperature dropped off rapidly after sundown - wearing 3 pairs of trousers, and 5 layers on my top, along with hat & gloves kept the worst of the cold at bay - as did the rum in my hot chocolate...but an overnight min of 2 degrees was distinctly unseasonable & uncomfortable - I gave up any attempt at sleep just before 5am to watch the sunrise
I got Phill up about an hour later by triggering his alarms with a spare spool of line and a bomb - and i was still chuckling to myself when we started targeting the tench at about 8am. Fishing into a freezing headwind made for very uncomfortable fishing, but double red maggot under a waggler yielded a 2 1/2 lb tench at about 10am. that was it for me but Phill picked up another couple of tench after losing one on a feeder set up. Called time at about midday and headed home for some much needed sleep
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