15-04-2013

 
         AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING SESSION ON THE CANAL





best roach of the year so far

welcome back to my new blog i left home at around 1pm to do a short afternoon evening session on a stretch on the local canal headed towards the basin i wanted to fish a streach i have been looking at the last couple off evening while walking along there the peg was the first peg befor u get into the basin just befor what is known as the broken bridge.on the school bay side i had been seeing a lot of fish showing alot there over the last 3 to 4 days when i been walking it.I was hoping for a good session as it had got a bit warmer then it as been for a long time .I started by setting up 2 tops  one was a top 3 kit with a number 4-5 elastic through the top 2 sections the rig on this top was a 0.50 td daiwa pole float with 2.9 main line to a 1.8 hooklength weighted with 5 number 8 preston stozs and a couple dropped shots  to a size 20 wide gape micro barbed hook this rig was plumbed up at 6 to 7 meters in the channel were i would feed punch crumb and fished bread punch over the top of it . The second rig i would be using would be on a power top 2 this top had a blue hollow 5-7 ellastic throuht both sections i fished a sensas 0.8 pole float on this one with a 2.9 mainlin stright through to a quite large sz 18 hook which i have found perfect for fishing the worm this rig was plumbed on the same line at 6-7 meters.I started the session by feeding 2 small nuggets of bread crumb and a few pinkies and red maggots and started off on the bread punch on the light elasticwithin in a few minites i had my first bite and i missed it i started getting a few bites the first fish i hooked was a small skimmer on a single red maggot so i stuck to the maggots and carried on catching a few more roach and skimmers and a good size rudd which is noce to see from this streach of the canal as the normaly show along crownhill and further out of town and alond to the far end of the canal . I then decided to go back on the punch and hooked into a good bream about 2lb + mark so i decided to then give the choiped worm a go i cliped on a med size fox toss pot onto my power top kit and put around 6-8 medium worms in and choped the into very small bits and feed on the mid range swim i put a small section of worm on the hook and tiped it with a red maggot i stayed on the worm and red maggot for the rest of the session were i went on to catch another skimmer bream ropund the 2.
lb mark and a very large roach of arounf 1 lb 4oz had a few more bites on the worm but pulled out of a couple fish which felt a good size fish i will be on the canal weekend hopefully for a few more of tth bream and big roach and rudd that are showing so keep looking for my next upday and blog in the mean time get on the bank and tight lines


lee

last peg befor broken bridge