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