Canal Tench

I had 3 tench in 3 hours this evening from the local canal.
5lb8oz, 4lb2oz and 4lb and I lost another cracker by trying to bully it to the net (idiot).
All fish fell to a strawberry jellet fished dead depth over micro pellets.
I’ve experimented a fair amount recently with hook patterns and baits and I’m nearly happy.
I’m going again one afternoon this week, as I’m sure now that breadflake over micros will be a more productive combination.
I’ll take a camera next time.

manchester fishing Irwell Ribble Trout

0 thoughts on “Canal Tench

  1. john-s says:

    Hi Mike, I last contacted you, re that cracking Trout which you caught on the River Irk!
    I constantly follow your Blogs – excellent too!
    Just a small point – on looking at your Header Photo of the Irwell – it does seem to me, to be flowing the wrong way??!!!

  2. JayZS says:

    Just having a nosy at the 2011 fish list. I confess that I had to look up motherless minnows. Another invasive species in the Uk I guess?
    May I ask whether you caught your stone loach in a tiddler net? Surely not on a hook?
    Plenty of them in the Goyt, Tame and upper Mersey if you go gravel grovelling.