8th may 2014

                                      WINDY EVENING ON THE TIVERTON CANAL

                                                                 

         Welcome back to another blog on the canal today it was a wet and windy day but the afternoon was meant to be brighter and dry but with strong wind i decided to fish a stretch on the canal known as the deadstreatch i got up there at about 4 pm and started setting my gear up about 4 pegs down from William Arther's foot bridge it was not to bad but there was a strong wind but third  was a bit more sheltered  then the rest of the canal because of the win today i was going to fish the waggler down the middle of the canal were the boat channel was i plumbed up and fed about 4 or 5 balls of bread crumb lightly squeezed and fired out a few maggots i only fished maggot and to cut a long story short i had a ok session i fished for 3 and a half hours and had half a dozed roach from about 4 oz up to just over half a pound an few skimmers and on the last cast i hooked into a tench but pulled out of it after a few seconds that would have been my first canal tench of the year i was gutted but i had enjoyed the session and started packing up i have about 4lb or 5lb of fish and packed and headed home thanks for reading and tight lines

                                                       Sunday 4th may 2014

                              BACK FISHING ON THE GRAND WESTERN CANAL


           Welcome back to my latest blog its been a while since my last blog but i am back on the banks now the weather is getting better so today i decided it was time to start doing a couple hours this evening the barge was due back in at 4:30 so i decided to go up and fish a area behind the school on a spot were i fish a lot last year and had some good session i was just on the left hand side of school bay were there was a large weed bed on the right at the far bank and the rest was full of reeds and weed i set my box up and got the bait sorted i was only going to fish the bread so i decide i would fish the waggle this evening so i got the rod out the sleeve and put the reels on i then saw the horse drawn barge was coming so i stood in the hedge and it passed i started setting up my rod i was using a self weighted waggler that only took 3 no 6 swan shots and 2 number 8 dropper shots i tied on a size 16 whisker barbed hook and plumbed up using a sgg i was going to fish it over depth by about 2 inches it was only about 2 ft deep as i was fishing on the far bank shelf i feed 5 or 6 medium balls of bread crumb and left it while i set the net up and put the keep net in. after it settled  down i started off fishing on the waggle fishing on the bread flake i didn't have my first bite for about 10 Min's but then i had the small skimmer pic below and carried on fishing for about another 2 hrs without a bite but every time i looked to my left there was a kayak or motor boat coming which didn't help but after the boats had gone back i fed another couple ball of crumb and carried on fising the flake i went on to have one more fish a bream which is pictured in the pic below i missed a few more bite again on the flake before it started getting dark but i then had to start packing as it was dark but for the first evening on the canal i really did enjoy it and it was the first of many evening session i hope i have a couple of evening sweep coming up over the next few Fridays so i will try and bring you as many blogs as i can nut until next time be safe and tight lines .

lee

DAYS FISHING ON TIDCOMBE BENDS

16TH MARCH 2014

 

Welcome back as the weather is still good i am glad to say i am getting out fishing more which means you lucky readers get more blogs any hope you enjoy my latest blog from fishing at tidcombe bends today on the grand western canal I arrive at tidcombe at about 9 am I walked up and had a look at the area and the wind was light up on the bends as it curls round and is a bit more sheltered then most areas along the town end of the canal I decided this was the swim I was going to fish I started setting up I was only going to fish one are with a light pole rig at about 6 meters I fished a match top 3 kit with a number 3 elastic through just the top 1 section I was using a 2lb mainline to a 1.4oz hook length to a size 22 silver fish hook the float I was using was a lake 0.40gr Orange tip wire stem float I plumbed up at 6 meters straight out in the boat channel I was fishing it a dead depth and after plumbing up I fed a 250ml pole cup of white crumb and left it for a bit while I set up the rest of my gear after getting sorted I started off by fishing a 4mm bread bunch I was catching fish on and off for most of the day with the bits being spread out with a couple of hours at mid day when the bites really did slow up but from 3pm they started to feed again I ended up with a bream of about 3lb and a couple skimmers and 15 or more small roach up to about 6oz anyway I decided that at 4:30pm it was time to pack up and call it a day so hope you enjoyed the blog you feed back would be welcome at (leeshort34@live.co.uk) thanks for taking the time to read and if you out fishing be safe tight lines

lee

ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER GOOD SESSION ON THE CANAL

                                                          

13TH MARCH 2014

 

 

 

WELCOME TO THE LATEST BLOG ON THE CANAL I COULD NOT BE SAT IN ON A FINE DRY SUNNY DAYS LIKE IT WAS TODAY SO I DECIDED THERE WAS ONLY ONE THING I COULD DO AND THAT WAS TO GET THE GEAR AND BAIT SORTED AND HEAD UP TO THE CANAL FOR A SHORT SESSION ON THE DEAD STRETCH AT THE TIVERTON END I DIDN'T PLAN ON GETTING UP AND DOING A EARLY SESSION SO I ARRIVED AT THE PEG AT ABOUT 10AM AND IT WAS SUNNY AND ALREADY WARM SO I SET UP SLOWLY I WAS ONLY GOING TO FISH ONE TOP KIT I SET UP A MATCH TOP 3 KIT WITH A NUMBER 3 BROWNING LATEX WHITE ELASTIC THROUGH JUST THE TOP ONE SECTION I WAS USING A LAKE 0.40GR POLE FLOAT ON A 2LB MAINLINE TO A 1.4OZ HOOK LENGTH TO A SIZE 20 HOOK I STARTED OFF BY FEEDING A MEDIUM CUP OF LIQUIDISED BREAD ON THE SWIM AT ABOUT 7 METERS I PUT ON A 4MM BREAD PUNCH AND SHIPED OUT AND HAD A BIT STRAIGHT AWAY IT WAS A GOOD FISH AS IT WAS PULLING OUT A LOT OF ELASTIC WHEN I GOT IT TO THE NET IT WAS A BREAM OF ABOUT 3LB THE REASON IT WAS FIGHTING SO HARD IT WAS FOUL HOOKED UNDER THE GILL SO WITH THAT IN THE NET I WENT BACK OUT AND HAD A FEW SMALL ROACH AND THEN HOOKED INTO ANOTHER GOOD FISH IT WAS ANOTHER BREAM OF ABOUT 4LB SO I FEED A BIT MORE BAIT AND AS IT WAS ONLY A SHORT SESSION I ONLY FISHED ANOTHER HOUR I HAD A FEW MORE ROACH WITH THE BIGGEST UP TO ABOUT 6OZ AND ANOTHER SKIMMER OF ABOUT 7 OZ AND THE 2 BREAM FROM THE SESSION IN THE SESSION SO FOR 3 AND A HALF HOUR SESSION I HAD A GOOD SESSION AND NET OF FISH SO I PACKED UP AND LOADED MY GEAR ON THE TROLLEY AND HEADED HOME HOPE YOUR ENJOYING THE BLOGS PLEASE FEEL FREE  AND LEAVE ANY FEED BACK AND COMMENTS WITH THOUGHTS ECT THANKS AND UNTIL MY NEXT BLOG IF YOU ON THE BANK BE SAFE AND TIGHT LINES

LEE  


GOOD DAYS FISHING BETWEEN THE BRIDGES ON THE GRAND WESTERN CANAL

9TH MARCH 2014

 

Hello and welcome back to my latest blog where i am fishing again on the grand western canal which starts in tiverton devon.Now with the weather looking good my self and a couple mates decided to meet up and have a days fishing on the canal so i left home and headed to the canal i was meeting the others on a stretch of canal at halberton which we call between the bridges a short stretch which is a good area in the summer we were hoping it was going to be good fishing today as well as in the summer i met up with martin and we started setting up Colin was going to join us in a hour or so.I started setting up i was going to set up 2 top kits both with quite light elastic one a number 3 to 4 purple elastic through just a top 1 section of a match top 3 kit and a number 3 browning latex elastic again through just the top section of a match top 3 kit so now it was time to get some rigs on the tops on the number 3 elastic I was going to use a drennan 4x12 float with a 2lb mainline and a 1.4 bottom to a size 20 hook this rig was going to be a rig for fishing up in the water so there was no need to plumb the depth so I hooked it up and put the kit in the roost and the other top kit I put on a lake 0.3g pole float on a 2lb main line to a 1.6oz bottom to the same as the other a Preston 20 hook this rig I was going to fish dead depth so I plumbed it up and again clipped it up and placed it on the roost I fed 2 medium cups of bread crumb and left it while I had a chat with martin and Colin before I went back and started fishing I had fish straight away it started off with small fish but as the day went on I started getting bigger fish I chopped and changed from fishing up in the water and on the bottom changing from 4 to 8 mm bread punch at the end of the session I had 10 roach and Rudd between half a pound and a pound with about 60 to 80 small fish it was one of the best session I have had on the grand western canal in years Colin had a few small fish and martin a few better Rudd but I didn't seem to be able to do any thing wrong the fish had seemed to have shoaled up right in front of me but I really enjoyed the days fishing and 5pm came so we decided it was time to pack up and head off home so I will be fishing this area again in the next few weeks so thanks for reading the blog please feel free to comment on my blogs and if your on the banks lakes canal ect be safe and tight lines

 

lee

FISHING ON THE RIVER EXE WALK WAY IN TIVERTON

 

28TH MARCH 2014

 

WELCOME TO ANOTHER BLOG WHICH IS GOING TO BE A SHORT BLOG AS THE FISHING WAS CRAP HAHAHA :) I DECIDED I WAS GOING TO FISH THE TIVERTON TOWN WALK WAY ON THE RIVER EXE IT AS BEEN IN FLOOD FOR 2 OR MORE MONTHS WITH ALL THE BAD WEATHER WE HAVE HAD AND IT WAS STILL QUITE HIGH BUT LOWER THEN IT HAS BEEN FOR A WHILE WE HAD A BIT OF RAIN THE NIGHT BEFORE I MAY HAVE PUSHED THE WATER LEVEL UP A COUPLE INCHES SINCE I WALKED ALONG THE OTHER DAY WHICH IS NOT GOOD BUT I DECIDED TO TRY DOWN ON THE STRETCH BELOW THE WEIRE IN THE FAST MOVING WATER TO START WITH AND THEN MOVED UP TO THE TOP END OF THE WALK AS THAT WAS A LOT SLOWER WATER I FISH THE STICK FLOAT ON A 13 FOOT MATCH ROD AND A CENTER PIN REEL USING AND FEEDING RED AND WHITE MAGGOTS FOR ABOUT 4 OR 5 HOURS I REALLY ENJOYED IT AND WILL BE FISHING THE CENTER PIN MORE NEXT SEASON SO BACK TO THE FISHING THE FISHING WAS BAD I HAD ONE BITE WHEN I MOVED UP TO THE SLOWER MOVING WATER I DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING BUT COLIN DID MANAGE A SMALL TROUT AGAIN ON THE SLOWER WATER ANY WAY SORRY FOR THIS BLOG BEING SO SHORT BUT THE WEATHER IS LOOKING GOOD FOR NEXT WEEK SO I AM HOPING TO GET OUT AND BRING YOU SOME MORE LONGER BLOGS ANYWAY UNTIL MY NEXT BLOG IF YOUR OUT FISHING ON THE RIVERS CANAL LAKES BE LUCK BE SAFE AND TIGHT LINES

 

LEE

FISHING ON THE GRAND WESTERN CANAL

26TH MARCH 2014

 

Welcome to another of my fishing blogs on the grand western canal my mate and i decided to fish the top end of the dead stretch on the grand western canal (www.grandwesterncanal.co.UK)

 

we were going to fish on the dead stretch just before you get to tidcombe bridge were there is a big turning bay for the boats and barges etc to turn in this we chose a couple pegs that are know to some times be very good but other times it can be very hard but when u this pegs fish well they fish really well and you can have a good days fishing my mate Colin fish on of the pegs we are on today early last week he had a great session with 8 or 9 skimmer bream and 10 really good sized roach so were had good feelings about todays session and hoping it was going to fish again today like it did last week

 

We met up at the top of the dead stretch and picked were we wanted to fish we both got set up and I wAs going to feed liquidised bread and fish the bread punch over the top after setting up the pole rig on a top 3 match kit I got it all plumbed up and I fed a cup of ad crumb and left it while before I started fishing anyway to fill you in on the fishing it was not a good session it was a hard day the bites were very few and far between but at 3 pm I had enough and decided to call it a day I had a total of 10 bits all day and a total of 10 small fish and they were very small fish they were all roach and I did pull out of a good fish on the far bank swim which I am sure would have been a skimmer I think Colin ended up with one roach of about 6oz and 7 smaller one we packed up and had a chat about the days fishing which would have taken all of about 10 seconds but like I said we both said before we started it was going to either fish really well or bad and it fish bad we decided we would keep in touch and sort out another fishing session soon anyway until my next session be safe and tight lines

 

Lee