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Today I had a choice of fishing for water pigs at Coppice lane or a trip to Wheaton Aston for some proper fishing, I didn't fancy the carp so it was going to a few hours on the cut. Number 3 son picked me up about 9;45am and away we went with just the basic kit, box for the lad to sit on, whip, keep net, landing net and a fold up chair for me. I was going to catch a few or look like Nobby the gnome!

Parking up the canal looked in great nick and I just couldn't wait to get at it. The 3.5 metre whip was flicked out and a rig attached, GB was mixed (50/50 Supercup and brown crumb) and left to absorb the water. putting a pinkie on the hook I flick the rig under arm for the first run through and bugger all happened
Try again but this time throwing 4 or 5 pinkies in first, the float settles and disappears Gudgeon number one goes in the net It was a fish a chuck for the next 20 minutes then the 1st barge of the day chugs through
After throwing in a small ball of GB in the Roach put in an appearance then barge number 2 shows up :( more GB and loose feed and its back to the Gudgeon, with the odd Perch and Skimmer, after three and a half hours of pure magic I started to get cold, so we called time on it and went to the pub for a nice hot coffee.
All in all it was a good days fishing that ended with a bag of about 7 lb of bit with a few bonus fish.

Sorry its not a very good photo but I only had my phone with me


The hi-lite of the day was this fellow
http://s1081.photobucket.com/albums/j36 ... EO0062.mp4

That's a big old Tommy Ruffe in the video fella.

Cheers Mugger, its the biggest one I've ever seen!

Nice one matey, Well done.
The video was good too

nice catch, would be interesting to know what it weighed as the british record is only 5oz isnt it?

I had a munster - the biggest I'd ever seen a couple of years ago - further up the Shroppie nr Cowley

I wondered whether I might have had a potential record on my hands

HaHa even rang his better half up to find out what the record stood at for me

Now if it had been a perch of the same size it would have gone 6oz plus easy.........

Must have been hollow, weighed it seperate at the all out - not even sure if it went 3oz, but it was nowhere near 5oz :(