Canal at Sollom(Rufford)

[wokkie]

I was all gear up to fish River Alt this morning until I found out the local tackle shop was closed on Bank Holiday Monday.No maggots,no caster
With only liquidize bread and microwave bread slice,only option I got was to fish the canalBut with the gale like wind,there's no way I'm going to fish the L&L at Halsall with the pole
Then I remember I not been to Sollom for donkeys years,might as well giss it a go because those pegs either side of the bridge are pretty shelter.Good job I did Apart from the first few cast with 6mm bread punch caught a few roach,I end up with 8 skimmer/bream from about lb to 3lb+,and a small tench about lb+ I'll settle for that as I only got bread as bait

The canal at Lock Lane,Sollom


Mi peg I fished under the over-hanging tree


My net

[alan76]

Fab catch that mate,havent fished the Rufford Arm for a few years,love them pegs the first two next to the bridge have so many features and look really fishy,youd think you were fishing a river.Was there anybody else fishing?

[marky]

Which side of the bridge is that overhanging tree (as you approach the bridge before going over it, is it the Rufford side, or the Tarleton side?)

The reason it looks like a river is because before the lock was decommissioned, everything from there to Tarleton WAS a river - the Asland.

Those Bream are like nothing I have ever seen out of there as long as I've fished it - and that goes back thirty-odd years; well done Wokkie.

[wokkie]

Yes,Alan,there were 2 others fishing about a couple hundred yards to my right(you could roughly see the pole on the first photo)
As you said,the first 2 pegs are full of features to fish against :(The only down side of that place is full of eels,little perch and little roach if you fish baits like maggots,worms,caster

Marky,I was on the left hand side before crossing the bridge(Tarleton).

[bigdave]

some lovely fish there ray...and what did you spend on bait probably about 30p's worth, makes it all the better dosnt it

[alan76]

They look like the pegs on the left of the bridge to me.Never fished them myself,Iv had plenty of Bream from the opposite side.

The rufford is well underfished,but I heard theres a lot more boat traffic than there used to be.

[marky]

wokkie said:

The only down side of that place is full of eels,little perch and little roach if you fish baits like maggots,worms,caster

Marky,I was on the left hand side before crossing the bridge(Tarleton).

You're not wrong about eels - that's all we ever caught when we went down there - I'm glad to see it's picked up with the bream.

I've had some good do's on the Rufford side (opposite where the cattle drink in the canal) with many a decent Tench, but never seen Bream to that size. I will be having a session there this week.

[andy]

Nice bag mate