if you blank

[TF_joffmiester]

question
at the weekend we fished a league match on a canal the other side of Leicester and one section fish really hard now the conditions seamed to be OK but nine anglers blanked am sure the last two pegs caught and the first two caught so all the middle pegs blanked
NOW your not telling me there isn’t a fish in theses pegs and some of the anglers are top canal anglers OK you could say its winter canal fishing
but what i want to know is have any of you got any ideas or methods to entice a bite on a rock hard day surely some of you die hard northerns have a few ideas i just don’t want to draw the DNW peg ~sick ~sick
BY THE WAY ITS NO B/J ALLOWED ~sick

[TF_carpmagicParticipant]

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.

[TF_Simon P]

P.M sent!~clap ~clap

[TF_joffmiester]

~clap ~clap thanks mate top draw~clap

[TF_joffmiester]

@carpmagic wrote:

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.

plenty and i mean plenty of features on this part of canal it begs belief why no one caught~sick ~sick ~sick ~sick its a long length of canal nine pegs

[TF_baitchefParticipant]

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.

[TF_Mikey .J.]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[TF_GLEBE1]

All sounds a bit desparate to me Joff lol~sick

[TF_Craftytafty]

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

[TF_Smed]

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!

[Anonymous]

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

[disco pinkieParticipant]

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

[TF_2TSParticipant]

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

[TF_Gary]

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

[TF_Kevin W]

@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?

[subaru]

Gorgonzola usually does the trick !

[Lazy Al]

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

[TF_Mikey .J.]

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.

[TF_oggy1]

What sections did you fish joff ?

[TF_Nigel.]

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

[molehill]

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 ;{

[TF_joffmiester]

some top answers it makes a change to have a fishing question on site~clap same about the carp heads turning up shame on you~naughty ~naughty taffy thats team fishing mate if i drew some of the pegs you do at makins i’d be going home early ~sick the trouble is i’d have to talk to the tank commander~naughty ~naughty ~think so the choice is easy fishing for a bite~clap ~clap
glebe me old son its team fishing ~shh ~shh ~shh

[TF_Craftytafty]

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

[TF_Gary]

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

[Anonymous]

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).

[Anonymous]

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 !!!!

[TF_joffmiester]

sorry mate but did you try a few of these tips mate~sick
at this time of year it happens your lucky it wasn’t a team match
don’t worry taffy and glebe1 have there fare share of blanks but don’t have the manballs to say ~shh ~shh ~shh the hole idea of the question was to hopefully get a few new ideas to help stop the DNW at the end of the match and i must say i’d forgot all about some of these tricks mate it can only help and hopefully i won’t draw one of these pegs sunday~sick ~sick ~sick

[TF_Craftytafty]

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.

[TF_bremesParticipant]

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.

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