Canal between hambridge and widmead:

The morning started at 6.45am cold and foggy.

We started off on bellwood and workes our way to the canal via pallets spending ten minutes in every peg on the way to no avail.

First hit of the day felt like a big fish but the wire holding the minnow and trebles on my spinner straightened (will be contacting the ebay seller regarding this as i am not impressed at the risk posed to fish!).

The second and last for me was a 2lb 1oz perch which followed my rubber tadpole all the way under the rodtip so i saw the action as he struck, what a thrill watching the pure agression of a hungry perch!

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after working our way we headed to speen mores but even though we tried every likely looking spot the only action was a jack lost at the net for steve until he cast upstream in the most unlikely looking shallow stretch and the surface exploded as his shad hit the water, the culprit? This beautty, 14lb 10oz of mr esox!

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Not an overly productive day as more time was spent waggling the shads infront of us figuring out how to make them look lifelike in the water and a pb each (unfortunately my other friend blanked) but i feel we all learned alot so fingers crossed for next time!