Staffs/Worcs Canal fishing and a boat named Koinonia
I enjoyed casting a big float off the rocks of Anglesey but just as pleasurable was the first angling session back home.
It was still float fishing but very different indeed, as I flicked a tiny waggler over the boat channel on the Staffordshire/Worcestershire Canal.
Whether the stretch in question has been predated, I don’t know, but I have found it to fall short of its potential whenever I have visited.
Having said that, it’s one of the handful of places on the canal where I have caught a really big perch (either side of 4 lb) over the years, so certainly quality over quantity if you look at it like that.
On this occasion though, it was neither, as I blanked.
I did have a small roach bite though, where just one of the two maggots was sucked.
Not that I’m making excuses, far from it, but if it was a dawn or dusk couple of hours, rather than the middle of the day, I would have caught I’m sure.
Towards the end of the session, a boat passed named Koinonia.
I think I surprised the people on it when I said to them, ‘The Greek word for fellowship’.
Many years ago, when my wife and I ran a Christian charity, we organised an annual event that we called Koinonia.