The Flying Tench's Blog

I have absolutely no skill/qualification to point you in the right (or any other) direction but things I would think about in that position are frequency of casting (ie the balance between building up that bed of bait v not scaring those finicky chub)/ consider adding hemp to the mix/if it's that narrow, could the swim be loose fed rather than your big ol' feeders. But don't take any advice from me, I'm sure others would have much more authentic advice -  I sometimes talk a good game, but in practice my watercraft ain't great!

Thanks, Bayleaf. Yes, I half wondered about the splash factor, though the swim is about 5 feet deep. I once heard a speaker at an angling club meeting, possibly Newbury AA, it may have been Dave Harrell, and he was fishing a match against a friend on a canal.  He started by chucking a couple of bricks into the canal to attract the fish! He reckoned they associated it with the sound of match anglers throwing in bait. I don't think he intended us to take that too seriously, though!

Canal? Perhaps the fish would be more used to the sound of incoming shopping trolleys.