EVENING SESSION ON THE CANAL FISHING FOR BREAM AND TENCH

friday 26th april 2013

       


                 

TODAY I PLANED TO FISH A STREACH WHICH I KNOW A FEW TENCH HAVE BEEN GETTING CAUGHT AND I HAVE BEEN WALKING ALONG FOR THE PAST WEEK AND LOOKING AROUND FOR SIGNS OF FISH AND ALONG THIS STRETCH IS WERE I HAVE SEEN THE MOST BLOWS AND FISH MOVEMENTS I CHOSE TO FISH A PEG WERE I HAD A GOOD FEW TENCH IN A COUPLE SESSIONS LAST YEAR .SO I SET MY BOX SORTED ALL MY BAIT OUT MIXED MY GROUND BAIT AND CRUMB RIDDLED IT AND LEFT IT WHILE I SORTED THE REST OF MY GEAR I ONLY SET UP ONE POLE TOP THIS EVENING AS I ONLT PLANED TO FISH ONE SPOT AT 11.5 METERS I USED A POWER TOP 2 WITH A NUMBER 8 ELASTIC THROUGH TOP 2 SECTIONS TO A 3LB MAINLINE WITH A 0.50G TD POLE FLOAT STRAIGHT THROUGH TO A SIZE 18 WIDE GAPE MICRO BARBED SPADE END HOOK.I PLUMBED UP AT 11 AND A HALF METERS TO A TREE ON MY LEFT HAD SIDE OF MY SWIM IT WAS JUST PAST THE BOAT CHANNEL WHICH MEANT IT STARTED TO SHALLOW OFF IT WAS ABOUT 2 FOOT DEEP I STARTED OFF BY FEEDING A BALL OF GROUND BAIT AND ABOUT 10 GRAINS OF SWEET CORN I STARTED OFF BY FISHING ON A DOUBLE WHITE MAGGOT AND HOOKED INTO A RUDD OF AROUND 12OZ WITHIN A FEW MINS OF FISHING I SHIPPED BACK OUT AND CARRIED ON CATCHING SMALL RUDD AND ROACH. I DECIDED TO FEED A BIT OF MICRO PELLET OVER THE TOP OF THE FEED I HAD ALL READY PUT IN I WENT BACK OUT WITH A GRAIN OF CORN ON THE HOOK WITH THE BAIT JUST TOUCHING BOTTOM I MISSED THE FIRST BITE THAT I HAD ON THE CORN BUT THERE WERE FISHING STARTING TO SHOW ON THE MICRO PELLET IF HAD FED BOUT HALF AN HOUT AGO WITHIN AROUND 10 MINETS I HAD MY SECOND BITE OPN THE CORN AND WAS INTO MY FIRST TENCH OF THE SESSION AROUND 2 AND A HALF POUND I FISHED CORN FOR THE REST OF THE EVENING I MISSED 2 BITES STRAIGHT AFTER CATCHING THE TENCH AND THEN HAD A BREAM OF AROUND 2 LB THEN I WENT 2 HOURS WITH OUT EVEN A DIP ON THE FLOAT I THINK THE REASON WAS THAT THERE WAS A PIKE MOVED IN THE SWIM AS THE FRY WERE SCATTERING EVERY WERE AS IT STARTED TO GET DARK I STARTED TO SEE A FEW FISH BLOWING OF THE FEED I HAD PUT IN I WENT BACK OVER IT ON THE CORN I WENT ON TO HAVE ANOTHER BREAM OF AROUND 3LB IT WAS DARK AND I WAS STRUGGLING TO SEE MY FLOAT SO THAT WAS TIME TO PACK UP AND GO HOME I WAS PLEASED WITH HAVING MY FIRST TENCH OF THE SEASON I ENDED THE SESSION WITH 1 TENCH 2 BREAM 1 BIG RUDD AND 5 SMALLER RUDD AND A FEW ROACH UNTIL THE NEXT BLOG TIGHT LINES

LEE