Kennet & Avon Canal - Enborne

1400 - 1600

Cool, calm with some milky sunshine. AT 7ºC

10 Perch; most quite small - with one good-un @ 2lb 4oz. 1 Pike c2½lb

Successful dusk session after a big stripey, in a canal basin that is something of a winter aquarium - for predators and prey - as evidenced by a couple of the club's seasoned match anglers who were also fishing it when I arrived. They kindly let me drop in above them - and I was quickly having problems with pike - I got bitten off twice in the fist 20 minutes. A series of small perch followed before something that put a decent bend in the rod and that wasn't a pike was brought to the waiting net. A 'scissors hooked' pike soon followed and proceedings were brought to an end with yet another bite off.....