MARGINAL GAINS
It's always difficult to prove whether any changes we make to our rigs or our tactics are actually working or not, certainly not in the short term and certainly not for me anyway. Improved results may well be due to fishing closer in or with worms rather than bread but equally on any given day the fish may just be feeding harder. I have to say, however, that my current approach on the canals is beginning to show promise. For a start the 'sixpenny' pole has been a revelation. It is so much easier and more comfortable to use than even my best Thames or Lea poles that I can't help wondering why they were and still are treated with such disdain. Is it a case of 'more expensive must be better'? Maybe more attractive and more complicated must be better. Maybe it was just the ' not invented here', Johnny foreigner thing that the English have always suffered from. Whatever, whichever, I like mine for canal fishing so that is one personal discovery I
