Thursday morning found me heading over to Terry's Pool, Solihull for what I had planned as a crack at the Tench. After studying and studying people's techniques for getting large Tench, all that remained was to get one on the hook and into the landing net.

Well, this is it; the day I have been waiting for and how does it feel? Fantastic!! Today was the day that over 24 hours of time on the water targetting one species, refining rigs and watching others catch it, I finally got my Zander!! For me this whole mission started last summer after catching word that the local angling associations had abandoned the stretch of the Grand Union canal because of this fish that I had never heard of.