BAD WEATHER GOOD FISHING ON THE CANAL

4TH FEB 2014

welcome back to my blog again we are now into February and with no let up in the bad weather with heavy rain and strong gale force winds which there as been no let up in since before Christmas with all the rivers un-fisherble and in flood and most of the UK are on a red high risk to life weather warning so i am still on the grand western canal fishing for the silvers it was forecast to be a showery day with light wind but with another strong storm forecast for the south west to arrive late this afternoon i headed off at about 9 am and made my way up toward tidcombe bridge were i was meeting colin at around 9:30 i only had to wait 5 minutes before he arrived at the gate at tidcombe bridge . 

grand western canal tidcombe

We started to walk up through we decided we would fish on the first corner at tidcombe which is know as tidcombe bends as it was slightly more sheltered then most places along the town end of  the canal we both chose were we were going to fish and started to set up today i was only going to set one top kit up  which would be a match top 3 kit i was only going to use a clip on pole cup not a cupping kit i was using a number 3 white latex elastic through just the one top section i was setting up this top and using a 0.25gr rizor long fine tip pole float on a 2.4oz mainline to a 1.7 hook length to a size 20 fox silver hook i plumbed this up slight to my  left hand side in a shadow of a v shaped tree branch it was deeper here then most spots along the canal i was fishing in the boat channel  after getting plumbed up i fed 3 small cups of liquidised bread and i left it for a while i sorted the rest of my bits out and went up and had a chat with my mate and after a chat and a coffee i went back and started fishing it was no 10:15 am and i was about to have my first  put in on a 4mm bread punch   

tidcombe on the grand western canal 

Before the bait had hit the bottom i had a bite right away it was a good fish and i slipped the net under it it was a bream of about 2lb 12oz it was a great start i went straight back out on the same spot on a 4mm bread punch and again within less then 40 seconds i was into another fish it was alot smaller a roach of about 4 oz i then had another bream which was a bit bigger at 3lb it was now raining and the wind was up so after a heavy shower and holding in tight to my brolly with the strong wind i went back out a a bigger 6mm bread punch and pulled out of a good fish which was most likley another skimmer or a bream i went on to catch a few more small roach and skimmers a rudd of about 4-6 oz and a smaller rudd i decided to pack up at 2 pm as i was frozen to the bone with the wind now getting stronger i was glad to be heading home with more storms forecast for the next couple days i don't know when i will be getting back out fishing any way until the next time if you on the banks in the stormy weather be safe and tight line 

lee