Chalk and cheese.

Baking hot day and an extra hour for lunch, legit and everything. What to do? It just so happened my journey  went within a gnats of another brace of waters on the commute club ticket. Separated by a yard and perhaps a field the two little waters couldn't be any different. 

Very very weedy and stuffed with tiny rudd but get past them and promise of more. One for a bit of thought for sure

Just beyond those trees is the other little water. No crystal clear water and luxuriant weed growth for sure.

It did though have shade and a lot of movement in the  marginal scum line, formed mostly of puss willow  catkins.

I substituted a (banned) mini boilie for a pellet wrapped in paste though in truth anything would have done. Tail patterns over the loose fed pellet in minutes, a few  knocks and the float shot away. With little visble signs of snags or weed it was  a pleasure to play the fish on the stanndard tench gear and  to good natured grumbling from the old bois dotted around about  johnny come lately upstarts my first fish from the water was in the net.  Not a lot of depth to it as you'ld  imagine from an overstocked pond but quite pretty.

Spot the koi.

God  do wet nets stink when they've been in a car on a  hot afternoon.

Cooled off on the very local water for a bare 30 mins but no fish succumbed. X didn't mark the spot this time. Look like an old skool Abu catalogue.

A colder andmistier sight on Sunday evening as a sea fret rolled in.