Elphick’s Fishery. Sandwich Lake. June 30th, 2002

Down to Elphicks Fisheries at Horsmonden in Kent for a pleasure session today.
My brother in law Chris had phoned me during the week saying he wanted to take his 7 year old Fraser fishing. “Nothing too hard and plenty of bites please.”
There are five lakes to choose from at Elphick’s and after a chat with the bailiff in the lodge while we purchased our day tickets it was off down to Sandwich Lake (plenty of fish,and not a Carp in sight ).

Chris and Fraser both set up Wagglers on peg 9, while I set up the pole on peg 10. Chris was struggling a bit with trying to fish himself and keep an eye on Fraser as the wind was quite strong, but Fraser was soon into his first ever Chub ……………

 It doesn’t have to be big to be beautiful.

Now Peg 10 has an overflow stack to the left hand side, and a shelf with a depth of about 4 ft  which extends to the right of it for about 20 ft, and it was this shelf that I was going to target with soft pellet and sweetcorn, both of which were glugged in Green Lipped mussel extract, over a bed of hemp and micro pellets.      

PEG 10

It was a bit slow initially but after about 30 minutes, the float gently lifted and sailed away and I soon had a nice little Bream of about 2 lbs was in the net ……………………

A steady flow of Bream followed, interspursed with the occaisional Tench just to liven things up. Chris & Fraser were finding the wind was making bite detection awkward but stuck at it and finally managed to get among the Bream ………………

      think that the smile on Fraser’s face just about says it all.

The icing on the cake for me however,was the capture of 4 Golden Tench at the end of the session. Super fish, like bars of gold …………………

Final total, 26 Bream & 11 Tench including the 4 Goldies. So a good day was had by one & all, plenty of fish,and best of all a 7 year old with a grin like a cheshire cat.