Bells Mill Fishery, Open Canal Match - Daz Jukes

This entry was posted on 18th July, 2017

On Sunday, Daz Jukes, assistant manager at Angling Direct Willenhall, took part in the first open canal match at Bells Mill Fishery, a purpose-built six-acre carp, match and pleasure fishery situated between the Stourbridge canal and the River Stour in the West Midlands. Here’s how he got on:

“Today I’ve been at the first Bells Mill Fishery open canal match; it was the first match that had taken place on this section of canal in years, so no one knew how it would fish.

“I drew peg four; walking up the cut it looked lovely, but unfortunately you could see the bottom - even at 10m it was clear. So, I set up a Dino Favorit 0.1g float for squat and the same again, but with a slightly bigger hook, for fishing the pinkie and maggot. I fed three balls of Sensas Lake and fine mouture with some black dye in at the bottom of the far shelf, a choppy line at 13m in some stickups - although never had a bite on that line - and a hemp line towards some overhanging trees.



“The float for the latter was the Dino Gino 0.1g, and I caught one fish on this line. For a maggot line down the track I used the brilliant Dino Caster 0.15g, which caught two fish.

“It was a strange day, as I only caught for two-and-a-bit hours and had nowhere to chase fish as the peg was so shallow the boats killed it because of the way they came past three of us in a row, but they couldn’t do anything about that because of the shape of the bend.

“I ended up with 2-15-10, which to my surprise was a double-default section win - happy days!

“It was great to get out on the bank again after a few weeks off, even if it fished hard for some folks.”

If you’d like to talk to Daz about the match, the equipment he used or the venue, you can find him at Angling Direct Willenhall, Wilkes Street, Willenhall, WV13 2BS. You can contact the shop on 01902 229 839 and find it on Facebook too.