A little Light Lure Fishing II

Another short mid week session, this time on the Aire and Calder Navigation. This is a rather featureless working canal, but this section had a rocky bank rather than the usual steel piles. Despite being rather bright sunshine I was soon into small, hand sized, perch jigging a small pink creature close to the bank in among the rocks.























Having spent an hour or so on this stretch I headed to another. I'm trying to find all the access points, as some of them aren't that obvious. Here we were back to the familiar steel piling, but by trolling the aforementioned jig close to the bank I was again into the same calibre of fish. This is a simple technique that works surprisingly well. Letting out 15-20' of line and walking slowly along the bank , twitching the rod occasionally produces a remarkable amount of fish. The majority of which were again hand sized, but it did produce a couple of decent fish at 1lb 6oz and 2lb 10oz.