Forest Lakes are very pretty, and a lovely venue to fish, which is just as well as it involves a 160km round trip from Wellington. While there are plenty of good trout and sea fishing venues in the region there is very little worthwhile coarse fishing to be had.
The weather was warm and overcast, which gave me hope that I would be able to bag a few Tench, which were the main target of this trip. I was particularly keen to try out my new roach pole, which I purchased on my last trip to the UK 18 months ago.
The swim was very weedy, so the pole was the best choice of tool anyway as it would (hopefully) allow me to keep any Tench from diving to far into the weed. I was fishing in about 7” feet of water, used 4.6lb main, 3.2lb bottom and a size 14 barbless hook.
I used sweetcorn as bait and as loose feed, as well as breadcrumb as groundbait, so pretty simple really.
To be honest I would have been happy with one Tench, but in 4hrs fishing caught 11 Tench averaging around 3lb each and a solitary Rudd. I would normally put the fish straight back, but used the keepnet for the first few, so I could take some pictures.
One of the joys of fishing is the unexpected. I had fairly low expectations on this trip and was hoping for one or two fish at best and certainly didn’t expect to “bag up”.
The swim.
A Tench.
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