Hi all,

Just a few lines to say why helping people can be a pain. First I had to
live up to my recent run of luck, I mean expert judgement, in catching Bream
at my local lake. Out of the last 7 visits I have managed to land a good
handful of fish ranging from 3 to 6 lbs.

The father of one of my grandson school mate was also fishing the lake and
listening to the locals who were catching nothing but not advising of why he
was not catching as they were not catching. He listened to me and I think
assumed I was exaggerating as were the other anglers and as per the
reputation some anglers have.

So I agree to meet him at the lake as were both fishing today, he was there
first and chose a spot close enough for me to fish close and still cast to
where I know the fish are.

As I was setting up he had a very small perch and was quite happy to catch
something. Any way I set up and half an hour later I hit into a small bream
of half a pound and he thought it was big and was over the pound. Well I
have some new digital scales and showed him it was only half a pound so he
now starts to see I am telling the truth. I then proceed to haul out a few
bream to about 2 1/2 lbs and he is impressed and now ready for me to try and
help him. He is not bad lad so I take a close look and see he is using a rod
that you could play conga eels on and 15 lb line with an American hook of
about size 4. So I enlighten him on getting a softer rod, lighter line and
smaller hooks. He was using a closed end ( in line type ) feeder so I got
him over to a cage feeder and got him using my groudbait and as I could not
change his line I put a 6 lb hook length on with a real size 14. He did bump
a few fish as the rod was just too stiff.

Now I have had a love hate relationship with the tench in this lake and only
had one over the last 2 years, I have come to the conclusion that they know
it is me and just love winding me up. So when my new mate actually hits into
a decent fish I go to help to see he has a very nice tench, his first, and
he is very happy. So instead of him changing his tackle I am going to change
mine I think.VBG

It was a good day and I did a good deed, wish I had caught the tench all the
same.(;-)

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Gandalf