 Hi everyone, it's about seven o'clock and it's the end of April and I couldn't resist a quick trip Out to my local club pond in the hope of catching a tench. I'm gonna fish out there by those lily pads Excitable school child just using one tin of sweet corn that I've nicked from the cupboard in the kitchen In April-May, it's a lovely time to be fishing for tension-cruising It's a time of year that I always associate with fishing sweet corn. The water is still clear because we've just come out of winter Which means that the sweet corn is really visible. Even if it lands on a piece of weed Sweet corn Connoisseur when it comes to fishing. I don't like the cheap Stuff, it's normally too grainy to cause more like maize the smaller and softer the niblet, the positive the tapes are Yeah, I'm using inferior sweet corn today to test those own thick skin Making it less than ideal. I quite like the green giant little niblet. They are softer and ideally with added salt and Sugar coarse fish have a constant problem with salts because they lose it through a process called osmosis The water literally sucks salt out of fish and salt is an essential nutrient so that's why baits like prawns When you bait the salt in it seems to work so well People often associate the lift method with Tench That's because Tench have a tendency to sit in silk beds and suck and blow repeatedly for blood worm and Make sure float bottom down a bit like that when they throw over your bait and rejecting it But they're rejecting it either because they're on the blood worm or because They can feel the resistance of your float not dissing the lift method, but when I want a lift method I want my lift to be like that Not like that Which is the old school Looks lovely Lovely to watch but particularly effective Some Drennan float stops either side of this float so I can push it right up the line must be about Eight foot deep out there. I reckon So short on time. I think I'll start with the hook that I've got on which is a size 18 cameras and animal hook I hope length is two and a half pounds breaking stream I felt that Rodney and Mike to give me a little bit more Control over the fish. I have fished here before and I've done a vlog during the winter just catching roach and Rudd Some not completely new to the swim. It's nice to see the lily pads out And it absolutely stinks of wild garlic That's how much over depth. I'm going to be fishing Aises me how many people rush this bit Coming the depth and shot on your float. I want to get it right What I like to do is just pop through the skin twice. It stops the Fish from being able to take it off quite as easily and by feathering the line as you cast out I'll just turn the line over and help it to fall through the water column like that And so just landing a splat and getting a tangle Every year I realize that I've missed at least three weeks of Light evenings going tense fishing is getting a Orcruzian fishing is getting increasingly difficult because most lakes will have carp in them which soon bully both those other species out the way to get to food I'm going to put out about 20 grains of sweet corn just dotted around. I'll find it I've managed to catch something It's definitely not tension or cruising it's nice to wrap itself around a boy of all things a boy Milk carton on a rope attached to God knows what It's a rod Pretty one And there's the hook length that's that I had to snap Lovely bronze color for such a juvenile fish I've snapped the hook length. I've got enough light left in the day to put a new one on Probably quite mature Don't have to be a bit of a disaster but we'll chuck out the rest of that sweet corn come back tomorrow I think Lovels this thing up as I'd hoped A bite straight away, it's definitely not a tense. I spoke too soon. It's easy tense Careful with the milk bottle Don't laugh There you are a little bar of soap the doctor fish Tinker tinker It worked get that out. No time at all If that was almost getting out of bed for What is a lovely little tense a bit bigger than the last one? Isn't that beautiful turning into John Wilson being done? He was still hooked hopefully with it's way three That's when I'm truly dead even weave. I've got my hat trick then this number three lovely dark looking fish It's going back a bit more of a breeze today and that floats traveling So we'll have to dot it down a little bit more and maybe push the float up sink that line Mad when I got here by the truck The first hour now it's dead. I'm gonna carry on Really felt like a cruise And I'm not just saying that let's carry on now It's an hour hours wait for that light After putting that sweet corn in and I just push the float on a little bit They can't shy fish cruisers they get bullied out by most other species So maybe the tension have switched off Is the opportunity to cruise and move in Like a moor and I'm blabbering away there playing a fish Without a camera. That's probably the best fish out of the lot. And ironically So I just writing off tense fishing completely now. It's too bright. I caught the biggest one of the morning He's probably what? close to a pound Maybe a little bit bigger Something I've not mentioned I'll tell them it's between a man and a female tench Not many species of fish you can We can tell the difference It's the male tench I've quite distinct pronounced lumps just behind their pelvic fins Just there distinct lump So, you know, that's a male fish Happy Easter