Oxford Canal
Stunning Oxford Canal, my section.
My Match
The plan of attack
I fed 3 lob lines, one down the track and two accross in 10 iches water, then joker line at 4 meters and bread line at 6 meters in 2 foot of water. When the bread line dies then I will feed joker in leam on the top of that bread line and then move onto my lob worms and hopefully catch on. The move back onto my joker lines.
“ALL IN”
I started on the bread which resulted in a few tiny roach, on a whopping 5mm punch in the roach of a skimmer. So put on a 2mm punch and got quicker and more postive bites, they could it in their tiny mouths. Looking around I couldn’t see a great deal, but could see poles getting shipped in and out all the time, so people were catching. So with twenty minutes gone, decided to go on the lob worm line, after pulling the float around the swim I was lucky enough to catch a near 2lb perch, which went mental and I was relived to see that it was a perch as I was worried it could of been a pike. Pike don’t count in these matches.
I rotated lines and kept fish coming throughout the match, the roach were very tiny. Alex Clements next to me, had about 120 fish for 2lb 13oz. So the weights maybe low, but plenty of bites even though, but the fish wouldn’t line up and you had to rest and roate lines and I set up another joker line down the peg, which was raw joker with an handful of casters, this was good mover as it bought a few extra fish. Also me fishing triple bloodworm got slighty bigger fish.
Some of the perch were tiny….. I think the lob worms caught the perch.
An early bonus after 20 minutes settled the nerves.
Perch are becoming a good friend of mine!
This big perch was very welcome.
My perch gear:
I like to fish plenty of bristle showing and these hollow hand made floats from Jon Walker are prefect.
I’ve owned two pairs of expensive Seymo scissors which both broke within weeks! So I suggest you get two pairs of decent scissors from Tesco and cable tie them together. Awesome, a lot better and cheaper.
I think lob worms are a must!
B560 or B611 hooks are the hooks that I use for lob worms
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Hello Chris, when using lobs how many do you fead on the line? What size hook do you use?
I would take at least 50 lobs with you and be prepared to feed them all. Shop bought lobs are expensive but well worth it, unless you can pick your own on mild wet night. You will get some strange looks from people when picking them…….
What do you think?