Hi, just like to thank all at ***** for making it possible for me to fish your recent ‘fish-in’, I’d also like to thank **** and ***** ***** for hosting the event and for giving me the chance to fish such an outstanding fishery, thank you very much. I’d also like to thank the Water Bailiffs who obviously work very hard in maintaining the fishery’s high standards and for transporting our luggage to our swims, thank you. Also like to thank Budgie for putting us up on Friday night, (if you’re ever selling that camp bed Budgie lemmie have first shout) best nights sleep I’ve had in ages! Thanks mate.

I was also very pleased to be able to fish next to my friend Andrew Burgess and appreciate the effort the management carried out for this to happen, great stuff. After humping the gear over the fence I walked into the peg which had been allocated to me (47), lots of room and some really good underwater features to fish too. Using a marker float to help find those features I used plastic sweet corn on one rod and a maggot clip on the other.

Shortly after tea I was sat in the biv sorting rigs out when Andrew shouted ‘I’m in Andy’- Andrew has told you about that in our forum. I was hoping to catch a perch whilst fishing at **** and quite often changed over to worm on both rigs but it never happened, knew I wouldn’t catch any eels because they were all in Budgies swim, LOL. I did see a little action Sunday evening; lost one, had a screamer then landed a 6lb tench soon after on a maggot clip, (thanks for taking the picture Andrew) Below Andrew with his personal best tench which weighed 7lb 12oz, as you can see from the picture he's very pleased with his catch, well done mate.

Thanks again for giving me the opportunity to fish your fish-in, ******* is a beautiful Fishery and one which I will always remember fishing.