🎣 Back to the canal for the penultimate angling session of 2025
Time flies when you’re having fun, as they say, and I can’t believe how quickly 2025 has passed. For the penultimate angling session of the year, after a few tough sessions on a pond, I decided to hit the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal.
My last visit was on Christmas Eve, which is only six days ago but, because I fish every day, it seems much longer than that. It is a fairly chilly period at the moment that we find ourselves in, but as long as your bait’s in the water then you’ve always got a chance.
Sometimes, it’s a case of being thankful for small mercies, and that was the case on this session, with one of our mini-species stealing the show. I caught my first gudgeon from the canal in the sixties – it was also my first ever fish – and every time I catch them now, it always brings back great memories.
As far as the bird life was concerned, there were at least two vocal tawny owls settling down in far bank woodland, after a night’s hunting, when I arrived. Kingfisher sightings were regular, including two birds together. I heard ravens twice, seeing one bird in flight.
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