What a difference 10 minutes can make.
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Sat 16th Feb 13 - Various stretches of the K&A canal:
Well what a days lure fishing I've had. I had planned to fish somewhere around Newbury for the late morning/afternoon before meeting the old man for the evening on a different stretch of the canal.
I actually ended up spending an hour in the tackle shop nattering, which only gave me an hour or so to explore a few bits around the town. I wandered about, having a flick here and there without anything happening before hooking a brownie of 3-3.5lb that gave a good account of itself. Once again it came from an area where the river and canal met.. these are proving to be a real hotspot of late, in fact I think I'm going to have a quick look on google maps for similar areas to visit tomorrow.
Time was getting on by this point so I rushed along to the other stretch for 3pm. I met my Dad in the car park, who much to my surprise was all set up and ready to go. It's been a fair while since I've had a session with him and it turned out to be every bit as good as it always was.
We started at one boundary of the stretch, with him catching a perch of around 1lb after only a few casts which certainly took the pressure off. We'd fished the stretch a couple of times with lures, albeit a good few years ago, and not done much good so we where slightly apprehensive. Anyway, we carried on both catching a few smallish perch until we started nearing the area that we'd always caught a lot of perch on using bait. Just before this particular area I had a few chucks near some moored barges and hooked something a hell of a lot bigger than the perch we'd had until then. After a few fraught minutes on my light rod a long lean pike rolled into the net.. probably 9-10lb, and very sparsely marked.
And that's when the fun really started. I'd never thought the time of day would effect lure fishing much, but when using bait on this stretch we'd not ever caught before the last hour or so of light. Anyway, it was getting towards dusk by now and we'd reached the swim that had always been productive in the past. It looked even better now with a bit of extra water about. I got in pole position and fished it for a good 10 minutes without a touch, before my dad had a quick go and hooked a decent perch 2nd cast. From that point on it was just mental.. fishing exactly the same area in exactly the same fashion as I had unsuccessfully 15 minutes before, we where getting a bite a chuck and some of them really wanted it..
In that last 45 minutes of light we had another 4 jacks between us and around 20 perch, including 3 or 4 scraper 2's. Fantastic fishing and something I doubt will happen again for a good while.
Here's a braces of 2's.. biggest 2lb3oz.
Back out tomorrow 
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