Canal Fishing, 9th July with Kris

I got a call from Kris on Saturday afternoon. He had decided to have a few hours on the canal in town. He got himself a pint of maggots and also took along a kilo of our Blacksilver Baits Canal Black groundbait.

The 'urgent' phone call was because of two things;

1: he was running out of groundbait, and could i drop off another kilo to him
and
2: he was having a red letter day catching roach, but Kris had forgotten his camera.

Only too happy to oblige, i went down around 4pm with both a kilo of groundbait and the camera. Glad i did, as the canal was fishing well, the best day Kris had had on there in a long time.



In four hours Kris caught 12 1/2 lb of roach, all on pole tactics at about 9 metres, 2" on the bottom on a 16s hook. He was still catching when i arrived, but soon had to knock it on the head as hook bait was running low.