People fishing on the canals

[Alf]

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.

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

[Danbert Nocurry]

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

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

[mr brightside]

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.





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

[that_fjell_guy]

Just what is the porpoise of this thread!?

[wharfeego]

Just what is the porpoise of this thread!?

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

[wheezing donkey]

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.

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

[molehill]

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

[mr brightside]

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

Worm on a Chubber float, barbless hooks naturally.

[molehill]

Worm on a Chubber float, barbless hooks naturally.

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

[wharfeego]

...barbless hooks naturally.

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


Wild Brown Trout by Andy Holden, on Flickr