Murder Cucumbers and Serjeants

 Between taxi duties I managed a couple of hours or so on the canal sight fishing for pike and perch.  The section I was wandering along is very very clear most of the time and you only see the occasional fish, unfortunately when you spook it. I did spot a huge black splodge of tadpoles on the bottom though. With the bright sunshine the fish seemed to be out sun bathing, although the tiniest of jacks tended to be hiding in the bankside reeds with just their noses sticking out. It was rather good fun casting to them. The pike would grab the bait as it drop in front of them. The perch, though, needed a few twitches before attacking. The only reason to change the lure was because the pike had chewed it beyond usable. The largest perch were 31, 35, & 37cm. One of which looked like something, heron? had had a peck at it.

 

Five pike and seven perch in a couple of hours all taken sight fishing isn't bad and made for a found time.  An equal number of pike were lost when the threw the hook and several perch hit the lures but didn't stick. The main problem in such clear water was that the perch were in shoals and hooking one spooked the rest. The Murder Cucumber name for little jacks is something I saw on the 'net and rally is a good name for them.