I'm off work again on Friday and will be going fishing but as its a bank holiday I am on hand to taxi wife and child to work but i am going fishing in the day.
My problem is where to go,I'm a tight arse to be honest so i wont be going anywhere which will cost me money to fish.But and its a big but that sort of narrows it down to the choice of two club lakes and a large lake in west London and of course the canal.
Now i like fishing the canal as its where i started fishing many moons ago but it seems to have lost the fish that were once there,i used to fish the grand union between uxbridge and west drayton and you could count on a good bag of roach and perch and if you got it right you would see the rare bream and the occasional tench,not now I'm afraid. now there are many reasons for this decline it could be pollution but i doubt that that stretch of canal had a lot of pollution issues but the industry's have now gone into decline so I don't think its that.It could be predation not many mink and certainly no otters but there are a few Cormorants about this area.These birds are here as a result of there natural food stocks being depleted at sea so as any living thing would they have turned to the nearest food source they can find which is in the waters we all fish and manage. Now this leaves only one other possible predator yes its been written and i have seen it for myself but I'm sorry to say its man.I'm not going into the whole debate regarding why you shouldn't take fish from the canal for the pot because well its just wrong but I'm going to explain to the next person i see catching a pike/bream/carp/perch that killing it and eating it will and could leave you open to all sort of problems mainly what the hell is in the water in the canal......... So Friday may well see me on the canal just for the sheer bloody mindedness and stubbornness i am known for i will catch a lump from there i will.........
Misty Morning
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