As Winter bites, so do the roach on the AMAL waters

As far as my fishing goes, I have to confess I haven't wet a line since the Fishpool grueller of the 24th November, work is still coming in as fast as I can complete it, which for a gardener in December. really is something and with the season of goodwill just around the corner and the unknown fickleness of the  weather in January and February, I'm taking all the work I can get thank you.

AMAL Business

I'd like to thank Dan for letting me know about a fishing trip to  a section of AMAL water on the Soar in Thurmaston, down Mill Lane to be precise,  there is a turning basin and locks here with a small weir pool too. Dan fished a sloping grass bank he affectionately calls " The Grassy Knoll" which seeing as he fished on the anniversary of JFK's assassination, makes him a braver man than me :-) his peg offered depths between 6 and 12ft and he caught roach on punch on a short pole line but after seeing another angler snare a 3lb bream, Dan tried his longer pole line into the deep water, to no avail, and on return to his roach line it too was devoid of fish, so a bit of chopped worm fishing produced some nice perch to finish off his net for the day. Dan kindly e mailed me a photo of his catch too, thanks Dan

 

One of our members clubs had a match on our canal length at Barrow on Soar, Bingham Angling Club fished on the 8th December, it was typical of the Barrow canal of late, a really close match where angling skills are rewarded with some cracking nets of fish, in 1st place M Fielding caught some nice roach on punch for a total of 5lb4oz, 2nd place G Adams had 4lb9oz and with 3lb10 , 2lb11 and 2lb8 filling the rest of the frame it was a match in the truest sense of the word. Richard Landon is the chairman of Bingham, and he rang me to say he would like to run a series of matches that switch between Barrow canal and Fishpool, we decided it would be best to limit the matches to 14 anglers as this number can fish both venues comfortably without being sat on each others knee. I'll be in touch with Richard to confirm the matches will go ahead, and I know the places will be snapped up quickly, with ME being on the list please Rich ;-).

The Soar Valley Winter League has now finished, and with some of the weeks coinciding with a rising river the SVWL have used quite a few pegs on our Deeps section and so when the match organiser sent me the cheque in respect of pegging fees I was pleasantly surprised with the total, I'd like to thank Brian Hull for his promptness in letting me have the cheque and his honesty in respect of letting me have an in depth breakdown of pegs on the AMAL waters, cheers Brian.

So my last bit of news is that I will be running a match at Fishpool on the 29th December, anyone wanting to fish please let me know via this page, cheers for now guys , Ian

Here's the latest match bookings for AMAL waters

Water Booked                                   Date of Booking     Booking Club


 Barrow Canal                                      22/12/2013                   MatchCatch
Fishpool                                                29/12/2013                  AMAL