EARLY MORNING SESSION ON THE CANAL                           20-4-2013

Saturday morning was the first early morning session i have done on the canal this year Friday had been the warmest day of the year so far but Friday night into Saturday was a hard frost when i left home on the Saturday morning at 5:30am it was around -1 and the car and the grass was white first frost. I didn't know how it was going to fish after the card hard frost night befor i got to the bank at 5:30am i decided to fish 2 pegs down from were i did a evening a few evenings ago as i have seen a lot of fish moving around this area i started fishing on the waggler and fished it three quarters of the way across were there is a weed bed starting to show i fished a 4bb self weighted waggle on a 3.4lb main line to a 2.4lb hooklength to a size 18 wide gape micro barbed hook .The ground bait i was using was sensas 3000 bream mix with a hand full of crushed hemp then i riddled it before putting in a hand full of maggots and mixed pinkies and a couple hand fulls of micro pellet and half a hand full of sweetcorn i went on to fed 4 to 5 balls on the spot were i was fishing the waggler . For the first 2 hours there were no sign of fish on the feed i had a couple of hard fast bites which i missed and a couple of slight lift bites but had no fish . I decided at around 7:30am to go onto the pole i set up a top 2 with a blue 5-6 elastic whist is a maver hollow core i used a td 0.50g pole float on a 3.2lb main line to a 2.6lb hooklength to a size 18 barbless hook i plumbed this rig up at 7 to 8 meters were there was a slight drop off just off the boat channel i fed 2 small cups of crumb and fished over it on  double white maggot and it took around half and hour before i had a bit in which i missed i thing it was a small fish but who knows i shipped back out on a double red maggot and had another bite which was a bream of around 2 and a half pound mark i went on to have one more bream on the maggot but to be fair it was foul hooked in the tail so it wouldn't have mattered what bait i was using on the hook this time of the day the tow path was getting busy with bikers and dog walkers runners boats ect up and down every 5 minutes i decided that was enough and decided to pack up it was around 12pm anyway so i had a good 5 to 6 hour session i started on bad picked up bit later on but was very slow i ended up with 2 bream and one roach also i pulled out of 2 good fish which i thought maybe could have been bream but he always next time keep an eye out on my blog page for new up dates and tight lines

lee