salmon in a canal....

[butiaboy]

the canal near me (chesterfield)probably contains grayling as its fed by the river rother which i no contains grayling as i have fished it

[Guest sslatter]

..and I hooked a fish down my bath plughole one night- I swear it was a skate..

[lutra]

Years ago, it was probably around 1979/80, i was fishing the Gloucester canal at Purton, which is near to Sharpness docks. Most of my catches were very small, usually just roach and gudgeon although I once caught a bream of about a pound. But once i was fishing in a swin just up from the pub, and i hooked a fish that no-one ever beleived i had had....

 

I was fishing a waggler about 2 rodlengths out on the shelf that drops on both sides of the canal and i hooked a fish that put up a pretty good fight - there was nothing too unusual but when it came to the surface it looked like a weird trout (I was used to getting rainbows and brownies from the Little Avon in Charfeild), but the spots were far too coloured and it looked just like a salmon parr to me.....

 

Sods law, the hook pulled and it fell off, but when i went into the pub no-one would beleive me - just a silly kid who doesnt know what fish look like - but i swear to this day that it was a salmon parr that i had hooked - i caught loads of baby flounders in the canal so i know that fish swim in from the Severn, but has anyone else ever had a more 'out-of-place' fish than this?

Seems maybe its a good canal for salmon.

 

http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/new...il/article.html

 

Also interesting how much it had grown when AT reported it.

 

http://www.gofishing.co.uk/Angling-Times/S...-canal-towpath/

[grumpybum]

I hooked and lost a trout from a reservoir that is only canal fed. Its possible of course that it was released after being taken there as a live bait.

 

Or it could have got there naturally. The canal that fed the reservoir is the Llangollen which in turn is fed from the River Dee.

[chubsta]

Nice to see this thread resurface after so many years, and even nicer to see that i wasnt dreaming when i caught that Parr!

 

Who knows, might even be the same fish