exeter canal, 12/10/10

[pingu]

well it was a bright sunny afternoon, i knew the canal was weedy and gin clear and also the wind was from the East

Perfect Pikeing conditions

so by 2pm i was on the canal
it was lovely

both rods on floats to get above the weed ( and I also had a hangover still from darts night before, so no alarms),decided on small baits 1 with smelt other 1/2 a roach

first cast and a jack took the 1/2 roach before had 2nd rod out but it fought well above its size and came off whilst tailwalking before the net

swithed swims after an hour as nothing else

then back to first after another hour
where bingo
the smelt went away and after a good fight it gets well weeded up and comes in

lovely light coloured 4lber

after that moved 1 swim down again and stayed till almost too dark to see
a good start and heard of 2 really good fish from another area( not sure if wasnt danny p i met who told me)

hopeing for more cloud cover on friday as i will be back soon

dave

[Fishing Forum Admin]

nice looking jake mate

[fishypaul]

well done mate,off the mark for the season

[Baz T]

Well done Dave - I recognise that swim and seems you caught the resident jack that lives there, lol. I thought of going down, last weekend, but ended up with too much diy to do, and the thought of the easterlies put me off a bit, and saturday turned out real windy in any case, but it seems you had a nice evening. Sounds like you have some info on another area too which produced some bigger fish so no doubt you are itching to get down there.
How much underwater weed is there Dave? as I was thinking of another lure session up there soon, but so far I have only been using floating lures this season. Will I be able to use sinking lures yet?

[BaggieRich]

Well done mate. A nice way to get started.