canal rigs Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/canal-rigs Mon, 03 Jul 2017 19:43:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 How To Fish A Canal http://travelsfinders.com/how-to-fish-a-canal.html http://travelsfinders.com/how-to-fish-a-canal.html#respond Mon, 03 Jul 2017 19:43:21 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=241828 DID YOU KNOW? In old English, the word ‘gudgeon was slang for a person who is easily fooled, owing to their greediness to bite at anything edible. The gudgeon: a fish to delight all ages. Members of GUGGS while away a sunny afternoon in fine style. Gobio Mania So where exactly would we place the gudgeon in today’s fishing landscape? Perhaps these fish are enjoying a quiet resurgence as anglers grow jaded with stocked fisheries which do little to remind them of childhood. One of the most delightful of detours in the making of this blog was a fishing trip

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]]> http://travelsfinders.com/how-to-fish-a-canal.html/feed 0 How To Fish Canals http://travelsfinders.com/how-to-fish-canals.html http://travelsfinders.com/how-to-fish-canals.html#respond Mon, 03 Jul 2017 19:38:09 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=241818 GUDGEON There might be those among the readers of this blog who will wonder why I have given the diminutive gudgeon his own little chapter. Can I be serious? Yes, deadly serious. They are beautiful little fish. Colourful, free-biting and fun, gudgeon are a delight to any true angler. ‘Gonks’, ‘gobios’, call them what you will, gudgeon are one of Britain’s forgotten coarse fish. Populations have diminished and anglers have become too obsessed with pounds and ounces to worry about such a small fish. And yet in more innocent moments of our past they were highly valued. We once ate

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]]> http://travelsfinders.com/how-to-fish-canals.html/feed 0 Best Bait For Canal Fishing http://travelsfinders.com/best-bait-canal-fishing.html http://travelsfinders.com/best-bait-canal-fishing.html#respond Fri, 30 Jun 2017 19:08:22 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=241648 BREAM Another almost universal species on man-made waters everywhere, bream are a timeless favourite of the canal angler. For the weekend visitor glued to a float or quiver tip, a bream is so often the best fish of the day to grace the landing net; for match anglers, their presence offers the chance to build a winning weight. In some quarters these fish are currently rather taken for granted, even maligned. Bream are slimy and docile looking, admittedly. Nor do they fight especially hard, and in fact that bronze, lumbering frame and dozy eye only add to the impression that

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