MAS News

My main aim for today was to fish for bonus Perch as the canal had not really been consistent for Roach in resent matches and to qualify or frame in the match you needed to have a bonus fish or 2 to add to your Bloodworm fish in most cases. With this in mind I set up 2 rigs for bonus fish, the first was a Sensas CCX1 4x14 with 0.14mm Sensas Classic New main line to size 16 3405 Senses Feeling 3000 hook on a 6in 0.105 Sensas Super Competition hook length. The second rig was almost the same the on

Phil Ackerley and John Kilby report on the third round of the Sensas Canal Masters held on the Loughborough Canal.

I decided to take a membership card out with Wigston AC at the beginning of the year and thought since I had some time of I would try after a 30 year gap since last fishing the Canal the club control.

A cold morning greeted the 60 plus eager competitors for the first round of this new league devised and co-ordinated by the highly respected Joff Woodgett and the ever present Brian Hull. The venue was a new one with the Carillion Hockey club and sports complex offering to feed and refresh the hardy anglers.