The Flying Tench's Blog

I think I was lucky on that day John, I’ve fished it twice since then with no luck. My theory is that the trees had only just been cut down when I first fished the swim so perhaps the perch were lurking there because that’s what they were used to doing, once they realised the cover was gone they cleared off somewhere else.

 

I haven’t been back in ideal conditions though so my theory might be barracks.

 

Thanks for that info, Rusty. With so many of the obvious perch bushes cut down it's hard to think where they've gone to. I suppose one possibility is the cut between the Arrowhead and C canal. I heard of someone catching a lot of big perch there a few years ago. I caught a couple on a lure a couple of years ago, but on a couple of occasions since caught nowt - but that was before the EA did their recent stuff.