It just gets better and better at the Leeds Liverpool Canal

With the Leeds Liverpool Canal in fantastic form this past fortnight, there was little doubt that lots of anglers would be out visiting many of our prolific areas that stretch out to the Saracens Head in Halsall as the word got about this week.

As a great supporter of Liverpool & District AA, I’m one who’s always been complimentary of the great work that the association officers have done being fully committed to preserving our great canal. Now, given the huge catches that have been clearly visible to all by enjoying the fishing upon our ‘famous cut’, the evidence of the association’s work is there before us to see.

With bream, skimmers, some fantastic nets of roach and catches of tench that are beginning to emulate the historic catches known to many of us ‘older’ anglers across the region, the canal has been in fantastic form for everyone to see and if you’re not a member, look no further than the association website at liverpooldistrictangling.co.uk.

As a match angling enthusiast, I’m one for encouraging every angler to take the opportunity to peruse all the match angling results available wherever possible, especially before making a visit to any prospective area or venue.

Superb turnout leads to close results

Taking last Sunday’s match held at Lydiate back to Maghull for example, with 64 pegs consisting of 16 teams of four involved in this one, this was a competition that saw bream showing everywhere within a match that was topped by a superb winning 44lb taken by Daz Shaw from Greater Manchester. That weight from the ‘duck’s length near Westway, Maghull.

A 38lb catch by Ian Morrison (2nd) on the Drums, along with Dave Nicholson’s 21lb nearby, also underlined this great section’s reputation, a firm