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 notesPipistrelle bat feeding at dusk. Air temperature was 10C.