Where To Fish This Weekend


Our Tony is back on home ground for a practice session with his mate Terry on a wet and windy Staffs-Worcs Canal.


This week: Tony Keeling Penkridge practice F


IRST things first, so Terry and I thought we’d quickly duck in for one of Lisa’s Full Monty’s.


Before you rush to the wrong conclusion, Lisa is a chef and a Full Monty is a king-sized breakfast in Fatso’s Café on the edge of town! After that feed-up we headed over to the


Wolverhampton AA controlled Penkridge region of the Staffs-Worcs Canal. A forthcoming Canals Winter League round will take place just up the road, so we were after a bit of practice. Terry has put together a string of decent results


for Maver Tipton Van den Eynde in the said League and they are heading the table, albeit by one point from Ted Carter Southport, and the team I turn out for - Eclipse Green - another point back in third. The practice would certainly do neither of us any harm. On our way we called in at the quaintly named


Acton Trussell but the floating leaves had built up in this area so we went further along the Staffs- Worcs to Teddesley where there is a nice big layby slap bang next to the cut. Incidentally, Acton Trussell is where the late Hinge and Bracket picked up many of their strange stage names - I thought I’d throw in that bit of trivia! It was wind strewn at Teddesley but a quick look


above the lock and it looked fine, so that was our home for the day. The idea was for Terry to try and catch some caster fish for the camera while I just did my own thing. I started off on a short whip, and at one time I thought I was on a peg belonging to Noah himself! After a while I had two roach, two perch, two gudgeon and two dace! This wasn’t to last and a string of small perch gave me a quick couple of pounds of fish on red squatt. My inside line soon faded and I then fished well


over against the point of the boat yard, against a bare wall. At the same time Terry fished caster on around the ten-metre mark. My change was a bit ‘pedestrian’ resulting in the odd small roach and gudgeon but quite a wait in between the bites, most of which I missed in any case! Terry was soon bagging on the caster. Funnily


enough they were mainly king-sized gudgeon with a few dace plus the odd better roach and perch. My ‘pedestrian’ pace soon developed into ‘statuesque’


mode! In fact, it was just the very occasional small punch roach for me before we drew stumps as the rain had soaked everything in sight. Anyway, Terry had about 50 fish on the caster so


the mission was, in a way, accomplished. I lagged behind a bit but missing bites was my excuse and I’m sticking to it! In fairness we didn’t tear up any tree roots but we both learned a bit - you never stop learning for


Terry Blyde made the most of the practice on this Penkridge section of the Staffs-Worcs Canal, a stone’s throw from where the forthcoming Canals Winter League will be held.


one minute at this game. Hopefully, the practice should have done us both a power of good and a good inkling of what could happen in our forthcoming winter league match. Anyway, that was it for the day - a quick


call in on Ian’s Tackle and back home to watch Steve Gerrard score a hat-trick in the Europa League against Napoli. Now wasn’t that a pleasant day!


STAFFS-WORCS CANAL, PENKRIDGE, STAFFORDSHIRE. LOCATION: from Stafford take the A449 towards Penkridge/Wolverhampton/M6 j13. Turn left just before the M6 to Acton Trussell. Keep bearing to the right past the Moat Hotel at Acton Trussell and it will take you alongside the canal. Keep going and you will come to the large layby on the left. TICKETS: day tickets are £3 on the bank; Wolves AA membership is £15 with concessions available. CONTACT: call Alan Gough on 01922 412762.


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