klonking canal roach

on the canal today when he bagged this lovely roach and it gave him a right scrap on threes elactic and 1lb bottom ,

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what a roach.

thats the mamma of al roach tha haha

think stes been on smack agen tho

only had a few bags casey lol was a class scrap on 3s laccy lol

Nice one ste, you could do with a few of them on wednesday

waggler woman wrote:Nice one ste, you could do with a few of them on wednesday

I dont know if its relevent but a couple of seasons ago i saw a bloke on the canal carrying a landing net
full pf prime Roach like the one in the picture and releasing them into the canal near the big bend ,, when asked he said he had netted them from the culvert??
could anyone give any further details about this CULVERT if its what I`m thinking it could be interesting
Newo

a few years ago i worked on the constuction of the glass museum and there is a culvert running directly underneath the museum which in victorian times was basicly a sewer, you can see it when on the hotties if you look down the embankment, if there is fish in there i will be very surprised but anythings possible.

its full of eels marcus when i used to be always on the a few years back loads of scousers came running up the bank every 5 minutes putting eels into the canal so i went down and had a look for meself and they wer catchin them on worm

tencher wrote:a few years ago i worked on the constuction of the glass museum and there is a culvert running directly underneath the museum which in victorian times was basicly a sewer, you can see it when on the hotties if you look down the embankment, if there is fish in there i will be very surprised but anythings possible.

i think it is just as i thought, there a large basin in Dilloway street at the top of Lingholme road, here the "Spures brook"(spoggy) splits up into two parts
one part goes down a grid and is piped ,later after flowing under the park (remember the brook at the back of Randon street)and under liverpool road it is used to top up the canal, at the very end of the canal (face the hotel and go right ). the other half of the brook at Dilloway street enters a large tunnel ( i have been along it for about 1/2 mile when i was a lad )which again flows under the park still goes under liverpool road and down alongside the canal it goes under the canal near the big bend and at the other side becomes what was an open sewer" the stinky brook", but all this is no longer used as as sewer ,and in fact someone showed us some fish caught in the stinky brook about two weeks ago on here so maybe just maybe it is possible for fish to be there Newo

it would be nice to think there is nice roach in it, definitely worth looking into i have to agree :fsm:

ARE YOU ON ABOUT FISH IN THE STINKY BROOK MARCUS

the one that runs parralel to the hotties baz

tencher wrote:the one that runs parralel to the hotties baz

the canal is the St Helens Sankey Canal as you all know , the spoggy becomes the Sankey Brook and exits at a lockgate in warrington into the mersey thats where the eels come from and migrate upsteam
Newo

yes newo i have been down to the sankey and had a look at it, i have been told it holds some nice chub and perch the odd pike and even a trout here and there!

I HAVE HAD 6 BROWN TROUT OUT OF THERE AT THE FIDDLE IN THE BAG PUB AT BURTONWOOD, THERE HAS BEEN GOOD BAGS OF FISH FROM IT AT PARR FLASH, AND BIG CHUB AT ST CUTHBERTS SCHOOL IN PARR (SOLID)

tencher wrote:yes newo i have been down to the sankey and had a look at it, i have been told it holds some nice chub and perch the odd pike and even a trout here and there!

so the tiny Spoggy Brook has now become a trout stream lol we have come full circle in 64 years then cos i remember them fishing in the stinky brook at Parrstocks road in the late 40s early 50s and catching fish including trout

newo

tencher wrote:it would be nice to think there is nice roach in it, definitely worth looking into i have to agree :fsm:

so we seem to have come full circle well done the spoggy brook, when i was a kid i remember them fishing in the stinky brook at Parrstocks road and catching trout newo

MMMmmm i dont know now it was baz that told me and he's getting on bit lol

tencher wrote:MMMmmm i dont know now it was baz that told me and he's getting on bit lol

i am not getting on that much ??? i think not the stretch of the stinky brook that runs along side newton canal is full of fish it's the same stinky at the bottom of boardmans lane in parr then it ran under ground near the blackbrook silver band shed i don't know if that is the spoggy ???

The stretch of stinky brook is solid with big roach perch and the odd chub, lots come from the college stretch at pocket nook when the lock gates got trashed. If you follow it through all the way down past the newton stretch of canal you will get the odd trout thrown in. I walk there most days and have seen some good shoals of roach when the waters low.

there was some big cod in the stinky brook near caldo

Number one wrote:there was some big cod in the stinky brook near caldo

Now your taking the p*ss ged,

lol sorry viv

Number one wrote:there was some big cod in the stinky brook near caldo

MUPPET ONLY JED WOULD GO FISHING FOR THEM

tencher wrote:a few years ago i worked on the constuction of the glass museum and there is a culvert running directly underneath the museum which in victorian times was basicly a sewer, you can see it when on the hotties if you look down the embankment, if there is fish in there i will be very surprised but anythings possible.

which side of the hotties were you on ?? Pilks side or towpath side im thinking if it was Pilks side it may have been part of the Flue system used to heat and melt the glass in the old glass house near there, the culvert i`m interested in is on the tow path side running parralel with the hotties then under the canal on the big bend newo