Transient Towpath Trudging - Pt.92 (Canal Zander)

The change of clocks was a bit of a shock to the system I must admit, and I'm not quite feeling the canal fishing at the minute because well, I'm finding it a little tough. I've bought some new hiking boots though so fancied running them in so a roving session for Zander it was. The towpaths are very muddy and damp however wellies are a little overkill, well the ones I have anyway. They are far too warm and cumbersome.

I hotfooted it to the canal and got fishing with my usual overdepth float set-ups with a small roach as bait. It didn't take long to get the first bite either when the left hand float fished tight to cover all of a sudden jumped in to life and was off down the canal.

I'd been watching a load of bream bubbles before that and often I've found that they do seem to share the same water. After tightening up to the circle hook the Zander was up for a tussle initially but then after a couple of runs decided that its game was up. 

 A nice pristine canal Zander within fifteen minutes of getting there I couldn't complain and I got the rods out again to see if any more fish were in the facility. I had a dropped run in the same area then all went quiet so I went on the rove to try and find the fish.

I moved from section to section but those floats remained motionless....

...strange because after that fish taking the bait so early in to the session I thought I'd be on for a good day. That was my lot though, one fish and one dropped run, slim pickings indeed but at least a nice fish was caught despite not being that big.

I'll keep on plugging away though as I'm sure a bigger one will slip up eventually, they usually so and often when you least expect it.