If there is any sort of feature in your swim, no matter how small it might seem then target it. There is often a small perch nearby and a tiny bit of worm can often do the job. When i say small features this can be something as insignificant as a couple of strands of long grass.

P.M sent!~clap ~clap

If the perch idea didnt work, you could always fish the same line and bait, but over a tiny nugget of dark groundbait for a Gobio Gobio.

Steve’s method is definately the one. Me and a mate once sat catching nothing on the canal for hours. My friend Kerry turned up, found some worms on the bank and used a tiny bit of one, constantly moving the worm and enticing little perch. I couldnt believe it lol.

Try half a squatt over mulched up chopped squat fished hard against either bank or any feature as carpmagic says. Used to work well on the shroppy.

All sounds a bit desparate to me Joff lol~sick

If anyone ever sees me fishing half a squatt or chopping squatts up they have my permission to throw me in. If I was ever on a venue where I had to resort to that I would go home and watch football!!!!!!~naughty ~naughty ~naughty

yep deffo the worm trick,top 4 or 5 left or right on the shelf jigging it up and down
if that fails pack up and go`t pub…..

theres been plenty of canal matches ive fished where an enire section has blanked, drawing straws at the all out for the section money…..never again lol!

Stick a tin of corn down the track and pray???
Jeeze what do i read this for???~think ~think ~think

the secret is in my name,they have got me out of jail many times and i never leave home without them.~shh ~shh

Denis White fished the head of a pinkie in the world champs 1992 at enniskillen, for one tiny fish
sometimes it has to be done!
regards 2TS

When people say to me that fishing is boring, I would have to agree with them, if this is what it was reduced to!

@disco pinkie wrote:

the secret is in my name,they have got me out of jail many times and i never leave home without them.~shh ~shh

So you always take some Martins with you?

Gorgonzola usually does the trick !

Your keepnet staked out is a feature,
the lads on the bridgey jig a piece of worm along it, or try the lob worm in the tights routine.

Chopped lobworm in a small ball of your missus tights and fish a piece of worm at the side.

or if you are wearing them youself, rip a piece off,they have to be american tan though.~clap

Go fishing tomorrow, catch a roach or two and put them in a bait box. Sneak it into your keepnet when no one is watching. Simple.

What sections did you fish joff ?

We were on the Stainy a few years ago, (you would have been on it Jofff), and a whole section blanked, and one guy had actualy caught a tiny perch, and droped it swinging it it, lol.~clap

tight to the near wall wiv worm on a light rig.or tight across.theres holes in the walls where the bank has worn out.think on the bridgy they used to get odd fish next to the keepnet! jig it man jig it ;{

I know Joffy, That’s why I don’t do it anymore. I spent many matches years ago sitting on the barren bits then getting a pat on the back for going back with good points for catching 2 gudgeon and a ruffe. It aint team fishing for me, it’s team freezing my nuts off bored sh*tless, but if that’s what you enjoy, great. not for me anymore though. I want to learn new things and try different aspects of fishing, tell you what though, what I learnt when I fished silverfish /team matches has helped me in my carp fishing and also If i knew then what I’ve learnt carp fishing I’d have caught a lot more silvers too

Ah, MJ…. I see you have moved on from the ‘perch in a flask’ trick?

small pieces of worm fished tight to margins either side (very often your own side) failing that chuck a weed rake/ice breaker in and stir the hell out of it or stick your longest landing net in and stir up the bottom or mix a cup of damp leam with water and push this under the surface and spin it around making a big cloud (get in on it quick before the cloud disappears).

Joff,do me favour,please dont put another thread up like this again…After reading this the other day i was thinking to myself how on earth do you go and blank when you fishing for silvers……………………..

Well guess what bloody happened to me at Makins today !!!!

Oh I do, had loads of blanks and i come unstuck regularly cos i never fish negatively and i aint remotely interested in spending the £40 plus quid ( pools, bait and travel etc)it costs me to fish most matches to try and do anything else but win.( with the exception of Makins teams of 3, but i still fish the same way) I don’t win as much as some cos I aint the best angler in the world but I always try and win, it’s why I fish matches and I never fish to avoid a blank.

Many moons ago we used to fish frisby pits/asfordby/m-mowbray,many times when it was part frozen very cold etc,it was a real struggle to muster 2lb or quite often even less,there was one old feller who used to have 3 chucks with the feeder then sit it out with a lobby,the amount of times he framed was unreal,he would sometimes only have 2 chucks in 5hrs,it would bore me to tears but eh you could’nt fault him.