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Chris Plumb

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K & A canal, flowing canal & River Kennet - Thatcham

 

0700 - 1700

 

Mild, overcast and VERY blowy for most of the day. AT 54ºF, WT 48ºF. River quite 'full' though with surprisingly little colour.

 

8 Perch: 3lb 12oz (SB :D), 3lb 4oz, 3lb 0oz, 2lb 13oz, 2lb 10oz, 2lb 6oz, 2lb 1oz, 1lb 14oz. (Nearly 22lb of perch :showoff:) 2 Chub; 3lb 5oz, 2lb 2oz. 4 Dace & 2 Roach.

 

After last week's chub fest I wanted to take advantage of the return to mild weather and target some stripey's. So the plan was for a dawn and dusk session on the canal with a peripatetic visit to some river swims sandwiched in between.

 

By mid-morning I was beginning to wonder why I'd bothered - certainly didn't pay to be at the water at first light. Didn't get a bite until lunchtime when I eventually managed to winkle out a chub (the bigger one) from my 2nd river venue.

 

By 1330 I was back on the canal - a different stretch to my early morning swims but way earlier than I anticipated - so I started off just float fishing maggot - and quickly got the other chub followed by one of the 2lb perch. I got no more bites until 1615! By now I was float fishing lobs and in a manic ¾hr then brought 7 perch to the net. They just suddenly switched on - a couple of fish snaffling the bait before the float even cocked. Been a few years since I had a session like this on the canal. (2011 to be precise!)

 

Biggest two. Over half the fish caught had some kind of damage to their flanks - all appeared to have escaped the jaws of over-ambitious pike!

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Cracking session Chris, well done!

 

Sort of blows my theory that bigger perch prefer the slack water of lock cuts.

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Think I had an encounter with your over-ambitious pike yesterday Chris. It was on for a couple of minutes before the hook pulled and I got a good look, at least a double.

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