Sorry guys, i lied to you last night and have fished the ship canal before. This is what happened to my last fishing buddy. Was great fun on a four weight! manchester fishing Irwell Ribble Trout
Author Archives: Mike Duddy
This evening I met Phil and Nick, for a session on the Manchester Ship Canal. I had taken a walk along the canal earlier in the week and had my appetite whetted by the large numbers of fish i had seen topping and rolling. The canal is very deep with 13 ft depth only 1 […]
After seeing such beautifully marked pike in the quays during the last week or so, i lay awake last night unable to sleep thinking about how i might catch them. The fish are just too visible and enticing for me not to go back and have another go. So after work i made the short […]
I had a few hours this evening plugging / spinning for Pike. Lucia came with me and this enabled me to work through a much larger array of lures to see what did or didnt work. Things were looking good when less than 20seconds after getting out of the car we saw two pike, one […]
If anyone out there has some watercraft – please lend me some! Spent the day crashing through undergrowth and splashing about in the river – the end result was six brown trout, a chub and very wet feet. I explored the new river a little further and found some fantasticly overgrown swims. Casting a fly […]
I had an hour free between appointments this afternoon so i used the time to explore a new river only 2 miles north of Phils house. After climbing down a steep embankment i discovered this lovely stream. I still find it amazing that i can come across streams/rivers such as this where relatively few people […]
The Quays are the point where the River Irwell joins the Manchester Ship Canal, and like the rest of the river basin, its only been during the last five to ten years that the water has had a sufficient oxygen content to enable it to support a population of fish. During a lunch-break walk around […]
After spending weeks concentrating on the local river, we decided to have a change of scenery and make a visit to one of Tonys favourite beats on the Ribble. Adam, an accomplished fisherman from Hungary joined us today, so there were three eager anglers tackling up on the riverbank. Adam must have been eager as […]
We set out this morning with the intention of having a 4 hour session at Pendle View Fishery, however as it was raining hard when we approached the fishery we decided to have a drive round to have a look at a few new venues rather than to fish in the rain. We had a […]
Tony catches his first Brown Trout of the session A happy man Typical river brownie Had an evening session with Tony on the river. We started off fishing in our normal manner i.e. slightly upstream then down and across with hares ears ptn’s. We had a few fish each on this method, but then decided […]