Early start.

With the last two days being somewhat disappointing I left the option open as to whether I would get up early to go today.  The water concerned is more local so the travel time is not so bad, awake a 5:00am gone by 5:15am.

Maggot fishing was the chosen method on this trip and by 6:20am I was playing what was obviously a nice fish.  A good scrap later and a 7lb-10oz warrior slipped into the net.  Amazing, I travelled a considerable distance to the other water and then get a bigger sample next to home.  The big difference is the potential, the local water can do fish to perhaps 9lb, the other water has [or had] probably a dozen doubles to over 12lb.  Time will tell if this is still the case.

                                                           7lb-10oz Warrior.

It had been dry first thing but now it started to rain, I know it was rain because I have a good memory for that sort of thing, it it had happened a couple of months ago.  During one of the many breaks in the rain I had another tench, a male of 5lb-6oz - good fight, but don't they always try harder than the females.   That was it for the session and I packed up at 2:00pm well content with the reward for the early start.

                                                                 5lb-6oz on feeder rig.