Let us know how you get on with them John as I'll be fishing for them then, and it'd be good to compare notes. How do you go about the eel fishing? I've only heard of one coming out local to me, which fell to rod fishing a roach head at night for zander( he also had a rare canal double figure zed the same night!) and only seen one three pounder dead in the water.John Davis wrote:Yes, they were from a short pound, and funnily enough usually always from the same area. I have fished the Coventry canal the last couple of years, for eels mainly and I've fished the Ashby canal for Zander in the past. I will be trying for those Silvers again around the end of April which was when we first started to find them, but August and early September was better.
The stamp of roach near me is the same, Mark. Large. Average fish is a pound and run up to two pounds or so, though my best canal roach, after three years of trying to beat it, remains at one-fifteen. The Ashby is really the same pound as the Coventry Canal where I fish it, I think, as it has no locks and they join without obstruction. I suppose it follows that the fish populations are similar?Mark wrote:I use to fish the Ashby Canal for years and have caught some nice zander and roach, my best roach being 1lb 12oz. This time of the year it’s not too bad but in the summer it a boaters paradise, you have 22 miles of canal without a lock so as we use to say it’s a boat a chuck. I must give it a try again, before the summer.