January 2024



🎣 I got there in the end and it was good to be on the right side of the fishing line

It was later than I wanted – due to the delay in the WBA v Wolves game – but I got there in the end.

Fishing that is.

With it being a Sunday, I was on the Staffordshire/Worcestershire Canal in less time than normal, and it’s quick anyway with it being so close.

Fishing in the boat channel over brown crumb and loose maggots, I presented two maggots on the deck.

It was very slow but I did have a couple of missed bites, the first one in particular felt like a nice fish.

It was, as they say though, a case of third-time lucky, when right at the end, the float sailed away and I got a small bream on the bank.

It’s a fine line sometimes but, when that’s the case, it’s always nice to be on the right side of it.

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Tackle: Greys Prodigy TX 12’ rod. Shimano 3500M reel. Maxima Chameleon 4lb line. Drennan 0.6g waggler. Drennan Super Specialist size 14 hook.

Nature notes: Pipistrelle bat feeding at dusk. Air temperature was 10C.