🎣 Canal fishing in a new month, for the first day of spring and on St. David’s Day
Following the meteorological seasons, as I do, with today being March 1, it’s also the first day of spring. As it’s St. David’s Day as well, that’s three big box ticks as far as I’m concerned.
The days are getting noticeably longer now and, even for local venues, I need to be up at just after 5.30 a.m. to be on the bank for first light. It’s never a hardship though, and roll on the summer, when I’ll often be home before many people even start work.
That’s then though and this is now. We’ve got three months of spring to enjoy first, as I got the new season’s angling underway with a visit to the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal. I was in the former county, the land of my birth.
I fished for three hours without a single bite. Nothing was moving at all. It was windy, but from the SW, so shouldn’t have made a difference to fishing. It was my standard set-up of late, presenting two maggots on a size 16 hook under a 0.8g waggler.
The sheep and lambs on the far bank were entertaining though and I do love to watch them. The positivity ends very quickly though, when my mind starts to think about their destiny, and the cruel way in which they will depart this world.