Simon Frayne Masterclass Day Grand Union Canal
11.07.2016
brilliant catch Simon
This was a special Christmas present from Simon’s wife Emma and his family. The Globe stretch of the Grand Union Canal near Leighton Buzzard was the chosen venue.
It was a warm morning with a moderate gusty westerly wind. The canal looked in perfect condition well coloured by the boat traffic.
Pole was the chosen method, one line at 9 mts just on the edge of the deeper boat channel, another line at 13mts just up the far shelf. This was fed with chopped worms and casters. The closer line fed with 2 balls of Van Den Eynde Supermatch laced with casters and pinkies.
It was a slow start, just a few small roach over the groundbait on single pinkie. A switch to a small piece of red worm produced the first quality bream. Another switch to double pinkie produced more bream. Topping up both lines was important. The chopped worm line produced a big perch and some more bream in the last hour.
We left the bank at about 5pm Simon having had a great day on the canal catching close to 25lbs of fish.
Bob
Here some pictures:
Simon with his first bream
lots of boat traffic today
a small skimmer
a 2lb bream in perfect condition
all the bream were fighting well
a big bream safely in the landing net
another quality bream
a perch over 1lb
the light elastic was stretching a long way with the big bream
these canal bream were in great condition
Simon with the biggest bream of the day