Bridgy Open ..... Another Mars Bar

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Albert Morris Bridgewater Canal Open Sun 24th May

35 anglers fished Cornbrook , Old Trafford.

A very warm day close to the city center of Manchester .....this was an incident packed match to say the least !!..... it usually is on these lengths

most of the bridgy here has a very narrow footpath with endless joggers ( some mega fit women btw

) Loads of boats, mountain bikers, eastern europeans encrouching anglers pegs (no comment

) Steve Knowles even won the football card before he drew

1st Derek Bowers Drennan NW                   5.3.0
2nd Roger Gardom Sensas / Trafford Angling 4.14.0
3rd Steve Watson Chehire MG                   4.2.0
4th Tony Derbyshire Derby`s Danglers          3.8.8

Derek caught a 2lb bream on squatt with a few small skimmers plus roach.

I managed 60 roach to 4oz plus half a dozen small popeyes (silver bream) to 4oz on squatt over groundbait & hemp fishing at 13 mtrs at depth in 6.5 ft of water ;)

i got quadruple boated with 20 mins to go and didnt have another bite !

#2

Well done Dodge

- that 20 mins could have made all the difference

#3

Well done Dodge - that 20 mins could have made all the difference

It certainly did mate

I also lost a bream on a very light rig close to the net but thats the way it goes i suppose TK ::) :(

::)

#4

Nice one Dodge

Steve-Knowles · #5

Spoke to Dodge after the match and it appears that mid match his peg turned into a polish foot spa with people rubbing up against his pole

I'll let him tell the rest

#6

The mind boggles

Come on Dodge..........tell us more

#7

The mind boggles

Come on Dodge..........tell us more

I cant TK

As Chris Kammara says on soccer saturday ........

Unbeleivable !!

A polish bird decided she had had enough of walking along the footpath as her feet were hurting

so she stoped on my peg, took her flip flops off ...... and then bathed her feet in my peg !!

She was quite fit tho with very large breasts .......

So i said carry on dont mind me

#8

Got any pickies

Steve-Knowles · #9

Dodge, tell them about the large crowd that gathered whilst you played that bream and how you stayed calm and composed

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Dodge, tell them about the large crowd that gathered whilst you played that bream and how you stayed calm and composed

The crowd that i told to crappity smack off after i lost it ......

Dont think they were impressed to be honest steve

Derek Bowers lost one aswell so it didnt really matter in the end

joffmiester · #11

Got any pickies

TK thats boarder line on perversion

polish bird with large bangers cooling off in the bridgy and you want photos
shame on you shame on you

can't fault you mate

Paul_Murrin · #12

I managed 60 roach to 4oz plus half a dozen small popeyes (silver bream) to 4oz on squatt over groundbait & hemp fishing at 13 mtrs at depth in 6.5 ft of water

Thats a proper depth Roger,
especially at 13mtrs is it even deeper closer in or is all the length like that, well done mate great result

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I managed 60 roach to 4oz plus half a dozen small popeyes (silver bream) to 4oz on squatt over groundbait & hemp fishing at 13 mtrs at depth in 6.5 ft of water
Thats a proper depth Roger,
especially at 13mtrs is it even deeper closer in or is all the length like that, well done mate great result

Hello Paul

Its 20 mtrs wide at cornbrook on the metro length mate, its 6.5 ft deep from 4 mtrs to around 14mtrs then it gently shelves up to around 3ft right across where a few fish the waggler.Its a very busy stretch of canal where a lot of people use the towpath to walk into the center of Manchester plus the metro link which runs above the canal and a very busy rail link directly behind the anglers, think all the noise etc keeps the majority of the cormorants away as the roach are a better stamp here than other parts of the bridgy. At the other end of the match length where steve drew a bit nearer the city center there were loads of fish tightly shoaled up on some pegs that wernt used.

Paul_Murrin · #14

fish tightly shoaled up on some pegs that wernt used.

I think that Roach in most Canals through out the country seem to be getting ready to sporne at this time of year, we need the Glorious weather we had sunday for about a fortnight to get them through it..... then they will get there heads down and have a proper snap at some food

#15

There is another open here this sunday 7th june

8.45 draw at Sale conservative club, dane road, Sale

£11 all in, breakfasts available

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Result sunday 7th June 36 fished Bridgewater Canal Moss Ratch Trafford Park.

1st Joe Pilling    Leigh Tackle & Bait 4.5.0 (£95)
2nd Rod Fraser Vale Royal Angling    2.0.0 (£70)
3rd Alan Morris Sensas NW             1.15.8
4th Colin Brunt Ted Carter Preston    1.14.8

It was another one of them days a real stuggle, loads of fish topping away from the match length at either end. Joe caught a proper bream of 3.8.0 with some small roach to win, Rod found 4 small skimmers.

I went for a walk after 90 minutes and ponced 3 chocolate hob nobs and a twix

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No second this time Dodge

Steve-Knowles · #18

I went for a walk after 90 minutes and ponced 3 chocolate hob nobs and a twix

One minute there was a twix on my side tray, next minute half of it had gone

Thought the squirells had nicked it, obviously not