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Saturday 7^th December 2019. Llangollen Canal.

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Back to the same swim as Thursday evening, arrived 1315 or thereabouts. I decided to go with 2 rods, chopped worm hemp feeder and lob worm hookbait on 1 rod, with a large piece of bread cast to various parts of the swim on the other.

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A bite came first cast on the worm rod, which I missed. A roach of about 6oz came a cast or so later. There was then a blank period for about 30 minutes, but then I landed a 2lb bream on the bread rod and a good roach of about a pound on the worm rod. Both fish within a few minutes of each other. At that point I decided to put the keepnet in.

Here we go. Bites then came steadily throughout the day. Several more roach to both rods and a 12oz perch on the worm rod. I missed loads of bites with the rod literally coming off the rest at times, such were the ferocity of the takes on the worm rod especially. I lost a few good fish on the worm rod too, both times the hook coming back and the worm had folded over, masking the point.

Two rods worked well, but there were times when it was more of a hindrance. I missed several bites whilst messing around with the other rod. Now is the time to think about fine tuning the methods am thinking it might be better to use one rod but vary between the bread and the worm, in effect feeding 2 swims? Food for thought.

So at the end of the day, 1 bream, 1 perch, with the scores on the doors for roach being 6 fish of which the best three were 14 oz, 15 oz and 1lb 2oz. Very interesting fishing.