Woodbank Canal

#1

I only have bread and corn. So hopefully I can tempt some of them chub from under the brambles.
Dunno what time, whenever I wake up.
Looks like I ain't going with TK :'( he prolly yellow stream up when he asked me and forgot :-/

Gem · #2

Grab the small sandwhich spread paste jars out the cuboard and mash it all together

worth a try, a homemade paste concoction

I would try it anyhow!

Have a good un let us know how u get on, piccys too please

#3

piccys too please

As always

#4

Looks like I ain't going with TK

I aint long got up..............besides it looks manky outside

..........think I'll pop to the club and talk about fishing with Heinzer instead

#5

Well well well.....................

Just nuked me bread, got me swag out and loaded the car and phoned SS to find out where to meet him and how many pound start he got on me................

.......................and he's still under the duvet

#6

Yeah bugger that. Pleasure fishing is supposed to be pleasurable.......
I don't find nothing pleasurable about fishing in gale force 10 wind and flipping rain

#7

Roll on next Sat............seen the forecast

#8

Looks grim. But a lot can change through the week

me · #9

saw a cracking roach in the side of the cut my the marina to day in the reeds. By its size it had to be over 2lb , but unfortunatly it was dead with a pike chunk out of its side

#10

Are you sure it was a pike bite. Might have been a hungry Polish person that got disturbed having a picnic

me · #11

what ever it was it was a right chunk out. Total was as it was a cracking fish. Id of loved to of caught it. It was massive for a roach

. IUt would of looked brilliant in my pond

. It was in the stretch just at the bottom of my road about a 2 min walk

. The was reports of a 27 lb 9 oz pike coming out of Baileys pool

#12

What cuts that on ME - well I know which cut, but what section?

me · #13

tk im not sure the name of the cut but beechdale social used to own the stretch but i heard they'd given up up due to the canadian green weed. The Stretch is from the marina at the back of baileys down past bushell jones school and dudley feilds est past the back of the bt depot and on to the old cement work then through beachdale down towards the old power staion junction.

The roach was in the reeds just at the back of the school. The school is at the bottom of my street and i can walk to it in a minute then through the fence what aint there and in on the water

#14

Know it well ME
I lived on the Mossley for 20 years when I was a kid before moving out in the sticks
When I was a kid the then to be future father in law lived in the house on the junction right opposite the boatyard at the back of Baileys.
It was a ruin, but still with a roof on etc when I was a kid. In fact we demo'd a lot of it and half the bricks from the house ended in the cut there - we used to stack em on the bridge and then push em all off........pity any boats trying to navigate the cut then. Hope MGB dont see this

The father in law was a brickie on the cuts, and his dad was was well lets say 'high up' with BWB and did 50 years with em - he was deceased before I met the missus but I've got a bit of commerative paperwork stacked away featuring him.
Heard quite a few tales from the father in law (rip) about when he was a kid and used to collect the 3d a day ticket money from the anglers on Baileys.
But that's a few stories for another day........

#15

ps - it's still the Wyrley & Essington canal

frank · #16

Is that the cut thats goes under Green Lane and the back of South Staffs water offices

#17

Yes Frank.........then through Harden, Goscote, Little Bloxwich, Pelsall Brownhills before meeting up with it's header Chasewater

frank · #18

used to fish on the matches all round there mate

#19

The good old days - I used to catch well at the back of the MEB & TI Steel works before Beechdale took it on in the late 80's/early 90's
100 peggers were norm with the guys coming down from up north.
Those were the days..............

frank · #20

Fished a match on the back of Chasewater by the outlet pegged on the grid had 27lb 10oz never picked up a penny.All bloody jacks and they didnt count.