The Ilminster Canal goldfish tally is now up to four, caught on the third of these little trips I've been squeezing in around work. This time, I only managed to fish for about an hour and a quarter but it was enough time to also take nine roach and eight perch on the same light waggler set up fished down the middle that I had employed before. I could get used to this simple fishing with hardly any gear. All I need do when I've had enough is hook the rod up, pick up the net and seatbox, and head back to the car. No getting caught packing away in the rain with this approach.
On this subject, I recently bought this little box off ebay for the princely sum of thirteen quid. It's great. Forget ridiculously named seatboxes for several hundred pounds, I really feel this budget bit of kit could transform my fishing this coming year, where I'll have to squeeze in what fishing I can with the available time that I have. Where most similarly priced tackle boxes fall down is that they are simply an empty shell, but I can keep all my shot, hooks, scissors, plummets and disgorgers neatly separated and organised in the top compartments, a few pole rigs, cups and plenty of spools of line in the middle, and then my bait, camera, scales, lunch and floats in the base. And it's a seat - for less than the price of a rucksack.
Back to the fishing, and it was again the little perch that responded quickest, before a shoal of 2-4oz roach moved in, and the goldfish came in the middle of those. This one was a kind of browny-orange. I'm not very good at describing them in a particularly flattering way, which they deserve, so I'll leave you to see for yourself from the pictures, but this one also looked to be carrying spawn, and more of these little fellas would be good news as far as I'm concerned. Jamie has suggested that I try caster next time, which I have no doubt would work really well for the roach, but my main aim is goldfish, so maybe next time I'll just take along a tub of fish flakes.
