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Monster Minnow!
With fishing trips recently lasting less than a couple of hours, putting almost as much time aside to blog about them has been a task I have not really been relishing in all honesty. Nevertheless, the...
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Typical Back-end
Ahh, the last few weeks of the season, and a familiar tale of endless roadworks and chocolate rivers, at least for me. Predictably I have turned to the canal for a bit of sport, which has proved...
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Isle of Roach
For the first time in quite a while I managed to get in what I would call a proper day's fishing. Longer than the length of your typical match, at least. For once, the weather was on my side, and the...
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Isle of Pike
Where there's roach there's pike - usually - so I pinched a couple of hours this evening for another bash at the Isle with a different approach. I swapped the 13ft float rod for a 9ft spinning outfit...
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Wides of March
One of my favourite bits of canal is the Taunton to Bridgwater near the Boat & Anchor Inn. Many people prefer to fish the bit known as Widewaters a bit further on, but some of my best days fishing...
View ArticleBlogger's Challenge - Who's in?
When I first came across the angling blogs, some of my favourite reading was of the blogger's challenges, which the Warwickshire lads used to participate in. To my knowledge, there hasn't been anything...
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Canal Specimens (and back before breakfast)
I struggle to think of a more productive fishing trip than the one I have just returned from. Several things were learned. Not least, the reinforcement of something that I thought I discovered last...
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Spring Forward
Sometimes the thought of fishing really grabs hold of me. On other occasions, I don't have the urge nearly so much. I've been through the latter phase a few times since commencing this blog more than...
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Good Friday
The Taunton to Bridgwater Canal is over 14 miles long, and I can fish any part of it that I like, as I hold tickets for both of the controlling clubs. The canal is very lightly fished indeed, with the...
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A Mixed Bag
Another short canal session today of between three and three and a half hours. This time I fished in the afternoon rather than from first light, and headed to the Bridgwater end. I settled down quite...
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Tennis Balls and Dragon Fish
A couple of recent trips to report this blog. The first was a short session on Monday night to the Taunton to Bridgwater Canal near Fordgate, hoping to reconnect with a tench or two. I didn't see any...
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Three Dead Red
It was five degrees when I arrived on the banks of the canal this morning, and the air temperature remained bitterly cold for the four hours I spent fishing. I had no worms so I had to alter my...
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Old Favourites
It is indicative of modern fishing preferences that my two favourite pole float models are no longer in production. It's been a long time since the Drennan Squat (old version, not the crap, purple,...
View ArticleBlogger's Challenge Update
No fishing for me this weekend, but a short update on where we are at with the Blogger's Challenge, which is set to kick off on Friday.  Google Sheets guru, Jeff Hatt, has done a sterling job of...
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Frustration, then... a record!
There are silver bream throughout the Taunton to Bridgwater Canal's fourteen miles, however, there is one area that I know of where they can be caught in numbers and, as a couple of short sessions...
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Underway
So the blogger's challenge begins. Eighteen anglers, from all over the country, competing in a multi-venue, multi-species challenge, for 12 months. And all for - well - nothing actually. But it...
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Bleak/rudd Hybrid?
Now I suspect that the majority of readers will think me mad, but I am certain that rudd are hybridising with both silver bream and bleak in the local canal. I have spoken before of the abundance of...
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Canal Silver Bream - Cut and Paste
Having been surprised by a really successful trip last weekend which produced a couple of near-6lb tench and a tanking perch, I have found myself off to a flyer in the blogger's challenge. Of course,...
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Canal Rudd - Worth a Shot
What is the shortest amount of time you would generally consider squeezing a fishing session into? It all depends on the kind of fishing I suppose. Lure anglers might deem a few cheeky casts during...
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Finding the Ballans
Managed to hijack a trip to the seaside yesterday for 45 minutes. A couple of spots were unsuccessfully tried before I spotted a bunch of anglers fishing in a line off one of the many harbour walls....
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