Tench fishing a fenland drain in awkward conditions VID 048 

Yes very strange, I heard there had been some localised thunderstorms so maybe a run off from further upstream but still very unusual

I hooked a tench on the pole on the Middle Level which ran a huge distance down stream and scrapped like mad. As he got closer I noticed that he appeared to be coming in sideways. I hoped and preyed he had just wrapped himself up, but as I netted him I could clearly see the hook in a pelvic fin. At 5lb on the nose he would have been a pb pole caught tench for me, but alas not to be. Cracking male tench though. On the middle level and lower Ouse flow tends to switch the fish on and when the flow stops the fish after stop to. Lovely tench. Well done.