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Perch exploration 29/30.9.13

The Flying Tench

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The essence of perch fishing seems to be that you do lots of hard work finding where the fish are, and then have a bonanza when you feel like it catching them. The latter is not too difficult, but the former is. At least, I find it extremely difficult, partly cos health issues mean I can't stand up/walk for too long, and partly I guess lack of patience/skill/determination etc.

 

Yesterday my plan was to spend an hour lure fishing the Hambridge section of the K&A canal, a stretch which I haven't really fished before but which produced a '4' a few years ago. A lot of underwater branches made lure fishing tricky, and also it clouded up reducing visibility. I caught nowt. I'd heard of someone doing well on this stretch last year, but there weren't any perch swims that 'stood out like a sore thumb', and I can't say I'm in a rush to get back there.

 

Today I tried the CSAS stretch of the river at Hambridge. I was fishing unsuccessfully for the denizens of Pallets Pool a while ago and someone came by who said he did quite well lure fishing this stretch for perch, though I think he got '2's rather than '3's. The CSAS stretch looks gorgeous, real Crabtree stuff, but when you start to fish it you find (at least I find) that it's not an easy piece of river. I only did a few casts today before disaster struck, but it was immediately clear that the obvious perch swims had a lot of underwater branches. It's clear to me that the guy I spoke to must be a good lure fisherman. In fact I was fishing with float/worm, but on about my third cast I snagged on a branch and in trying to free it my John Wilson Avon Quiver rod broke. Drat! Though in all honesty I can't complain. It's served me well for almost 20 years, and the great news is at last I've got something to ask Santa to bring me for Christmas!

 

I had an hour to kill, so (despite the back) went for a walk to see if any of the perch swims the EA destroyed on 'A' Canal had miraculously reinvented themselves. They hadn't. I don't know where my perch quest will lead me next, but some of the swims below Bulls lock looked quite appealing and I must say I haven't fished them for ages and don't know anyone who has.....

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Chris Plumb

John - we'll have to kidnap Rusty and not release him til he tells us where's he's been catching this Autumn!! :-)

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The Flying Tench

Yeah, certainly kidnap Rusty, but there's a Plumb fella that also needs capturing when it comes down to the perch stakes (and other stakes, too, come to think of it), and of course definitely Tom Haggett.

 

Actually, I think I can guess the 'known' perch swim Rusty referred to on 12th Sept - and I am sure you do - but I feel a bit guilty fishing it. Though if I experience a perch famine my conscience may grow less sensitive! Come to think of it, though, Rusty hasn't been writing his blog recently, so perhaps he's been bagging up more than I realise.....

 

Just to get you going I was talking to an angler who had a 4.3 near there last Feb, and he said a bigger one followed it in!

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