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Apparently a couple of guys from the club went down last Sunday = they had the usual skimmers, roach and perch.
But they reported there was an angler down in the boatyard emptying it - tench after tench
Ps OBI - that angler and his wife you spoke to a couple of weeks ago was the same person I refered too........they went down last week - fished the reed bed to the right of the 'main gate' just over the new bridge................and had another decent day with plenty of fish
planned a trip yesterday,but swmbo booked in some builders to give a quote on some work then buggered off to work herself.
damn inconsiderate i reckon,they wanna start next monday but am trying to put em off til tues so that i can go on a trip down the teme which has been planned for months,but i aint holding my breath :(
any idea what they were catching on,make sure you cos them there talk angling lady things might be avin a look see ::)
Capture one of these and you've 'done your job' on Saturday
This 31lb 7oz beautifully conditioned, coloured and wonderfully scaled mirror put in an appearance on The Extension the weekend before......
It was caught by local angler Darrell Upton
What makes the capture even more amazing that it was Darrell's first excursion on the canal on his quest for the carp that are known to frequent the water
remember a match on there sometime last century (mid 90,s) chap on next peg got done at least half dozen times by 1 of those babies,didnt matter where he dropped in it just kept coming back for more ,he just kept losing the by the end of the match he was
As a few of you will know, Cotti, the Warburton King, tends to be my ears and eyes on our canal sections
Spoke to him on Saturday before our match - our conversation went along the lines of……
‘Been up the cut lately?’
‘Yep, went in the week, it was crap’
‘Crap?’
‘Yep, crap.’
‘Which cut?’
‘The Extension’
‘And it was crap? Daint you catch?’
‘Oh yeh, course I caught, but I only had about 8lb of bits, never had owt decent, nothing bigger than 2oz, all tiddlers’
‘8lb of bits aint bad’
‘It is for me’
Spoke to him again today……….
‘Been up the cut this week?’
‘Yep, yesterday’
‘Which one?’
‘The Extension’
‘Any good or was it ‘crap’ again’
‘Nah, you aint gunna believe it. After last week, it was back to normal - I had at least 30lb, nearly all skimmers. You wanna get down there the weekend, it’s fishing its brains out’