Cornerstone 5th April 2008

#1

With not many canal matches on at this time of the year i decided to visit Larry Teapot on the grand union in the middle of Birmingham.

I drew peg 28 in the middle of the high wall and had 4-10-8 on squatt and chopped, not enough to frame but i had my money back by winning my 5 peg section by over a pound and half.

1 Graham Colett...................8..12..14........Harris MG
2 John Fowler......................8..11...7........Dams & Locks
3 Andy Curless.....................8..1..12.........
4 Tom Grainey......................6..3..13.........Mosella
5 Bob Taylor........................5..14..12.......
6 Pete Millard.......................5..1..12........
7 Lee Woodhouse.................4..10..8........ Trabbuco Midland VDE
8 Andy Swift........................4..6..12
9 Chris Rice..........................4..4..8
10 John Cartwright................4..1..12

I think i'll be spending the next few Saturdays there, lots of fish and sensible pegging.

#2

What did you catch lee, all roach ?
Section win =

#3

I had a few roach, few perch and a few small skimmers.

I had the feeling that there were a fish fish there for the first three hours but the wind was very difficult, it was bouncing off the wall opposite and blowing the float back towards me.

#4

Nice one.
The wind was good for me today because I had tow to the right and the wind was blowing to the left. Kept my float in one place

#5

Well done Chockie Munster

I think i'll be spending the next few Saturdays there, lots of fish and sensible pegging

What time you picking me up next Sat ?

#6

Well done Chockie Munster

I think i'll be spending the next few Saturdays there, lots of fish and sensible pegging

What time you picking me up next Sat ?

Any time you like mate.

#7

I'll give you a bell............ta

Fancy a couple of lb of roach (if I can live with you cracks)

#8

Looks like the Chockie Munster did aok there again this weekend

http://www.talkangling.co.uk/upload/mat ... april.html

#9

I thought he hadn't fished it since as he hadn't posted it on here.

#10

Sorry aint I....

I drew peg 47 just before the narrows.

I had about 3lb of roach on Hemp and the rest on pinkie.

Small Heath GU Canal 26th April 19 fished

1st Merv Rogers............14..10..8.....Sensas R & D
2nd Dave Lloyd...............13..11..4.....Fox Match
3rd Bob Taylor.................10..1..10....Jets MG
4th Lee Woodhouse........9..7..3....... HanKat AS
5th Andy Curless..............7..15..7......Fox Black Horse
6th Simon Preece............7..8..11.....Trabucco MidlandsVDE

This week it fished well with a proper weight from Merv Rogers (peg 21 )who had some hemp roach and squat fish against the wall to take the match away from Dave Lloyd who had another cracking weight of (peg 59 ) who fished squat 3/4 qtrs across.Bob Taylor fished squat off (peg 67 )for the 3rd double figure weight

#11

Nice one Lee, What hooks do you use for Hemp fishing ?

#12

B511 in size 22 up to size 16.

#13

Cheers Lee.

#14

Me too............but generally a 20

#15

Cornerstone-grand union canal

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3rd may 2008

1]dave lloyd-fox tipton match 10-3-9 peg-60
2]Lee woodhouse-Hankat AS 9-9-15 peg-18
3]Merv rogers -sensas R & D 9-9-3 peg-36
4]Simon nickless-Saints 9-1-3 peg-56
5]Chris rice -harris mg 8-10-13 peg-42
6]John fowler -Sensas dams&lock 7-10-12 peg-54
7]Kevin perry 6-14-12 peg-46
8]alan homer 5-7-11 peg-13
9]Graham neary 5-4-9 peg-26
10]Pete millard 4-15-3 peg-22
11]Bob taylor 4-9-12] peg-20
12]John cartwright 2-12-5 peg-52

#16

Well done Lee

What did you catch and what did you have them on

#17

My peg was 13m wide, i caught about 15 hemp fish for 2 1/2lb at 13m.

The rest were roach,perch, skimmers and gudgeon caught on squatt at 10 and 11.5m.

The lads on pegs 16,20 and 22 all caught well for the 1st hour while i really struggled, in the last 3 hrs i think all their fish had moved in front of me

#18

Well done again Chockie Munster - some 'cracks' on there - but looks like yow am the blowk to beat on Teepots cut

Without divulging too much - how did the other guys either cock their pegs up or what did you do diff to 'steal' their fish

A pm will suffice

#19

Well done again Chockie Munster - some 'cracks' on there - but looks like yow am the blowk to beat on Teepots cut

Without divulging too much - how did the other guys either cock their pegs up or what did you do diff to 'steal' their fish

A pm will suffice

I think on the day my approach suited the fishing more than theirs!

The lad on my right (peg20) had finished 3rd the week before with 10lb of roach and skimmers by feeding groundbait on three lines with no loosefeed, the lad on 22 fished bread which is a winning method when the fish are "grazing". I think the fish were happier feeding off bottom so once the column of particles off there GB had settled they moved on instead of following in down.

With the roach moving about a lot more this week i relied more on loosefed squatt to keep that column of feed constantly falling through the water and caught a lot of fish on the drop.

After speaking to John Fowler at the end we both had noticed that neither of us could catch by waiting with a bait suspended off bottom but could catch by constantly lifting and dropping the hookbait. I personally think this is because the roach are higher up in the water and are following it down.

#20

Cheers

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