People fishing on the canals

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Originally Posted by Danbert Nocurry

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The run involves picking up the Rochdale canal in Middleton coming off at Slattocks and going off road using public bridleways up to Tandle Hill monument. Tandle Hill is about the nearest thing i've got to a hill in my part of North Manchester that doesn't involve getting the car off the drive.

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You have to be careful there Danbert as you are in line of sight from the Kirkholt housing estate (bandit country!). They can scramble a bunch of muggers and be on you before you know it :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Alf

You have to be careful there Danbert as you are in line of sight from the Kirkholt housing estate (bandit country!). They can scramble a bunch of muggers and be on you before you know it :rolleyes:

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Indeed Alf, I am well acquainted with the Kirkholt rapscallions.

The thing about people who fish on canals is that a lot of them think that that is fishing. I prefer more interesting and inaccessible spots that have to be looked for and approached with extreme care and patience, so as not to spook the fish.

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This came from under another bridge, again a pool that probably very few people know exists.

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Just what is the porpoise of this thread!?

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Originally Posted by that_fjell_guy

Just what is the porpoise of this thread!?

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Seems that it's all over parr the shoutin'.

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Originally Posted by Danbert Nocurry

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The run involves picking up the Rochdale canal in Middleton coming off at Slattocks and going off road using public bridleways up to Tandle Hill monument. Tandle Hill is about the nearest thing i've got to a hill in my part of North Manchester that doesn't involve getting the car off the drive.

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Thought it'd be four piles of bricks down your neck of the woods.

Canals are very bleak places to fish.
Nice little wild Brownie Mr Brightside, on the fly?

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Originally Posted by molehill

Canals are very bleak places to fish.
Nice little wild Brownie Mr Brightside, on the fly?

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Worm on a Chubber float, barbless hooks naturally.

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Originally Posted by mr brightside

Worm on a Chubber float, barbless hooks naturally.

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I saw it was returned, they are precious :thumbup:.

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Originally Posted by mr brightside

...barbless hooks naturally.

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Naturally mr b. Here's one I caught high up the Stockdale valley on the tops above Settle a few years ago...

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Wild Brown Trout by Andy Holden, on Flickr