Staffs-Worc canal Limekilns Sunday 4/11/12

This Sunday saw us on the Limekilns section of the Staffs-Worc canal right in the center of Kidderminster town for Cradley Heath's fur & feather, I have not fished this stretch of canal for at lest 25 years I used to fish here with my Dad when I was a lad. To the left of the bridge is down towards the back of Sainsbury's opposite a Church we used to call this ding dong alley as the church strikes its bell every hour and to the right of the bridge there used to be a lot of factory units which have long since gone but there is still a wide concrete path leading up to a new housing estate we used to call this the concrete road. It was the fact that no one had fished here for a long time that it had been chosen for the fur & feather so at least you would go to your peg and fish it instead of being disapointed at the draw, 21 of us had turned up for this one and 11 pegs were on the concrete road the other 10 on ding dong alley I drew peg 7 on the concrete road which looked the same as all the others apart from pegs 1,2 & 3 which were on natural bank where all the others the far bank had just been done by the British Waterways. From the bridge to peg 4 there was new brickwork on the far side along with new reeds that the BW had planted I supposed it had been done to make the canal look good as there were a lot of new builds on the far bank some finished and some not, the other side of the bridge had not been touched but they were still working on the bridge so we had to park in the road and walk over.
To cut a long story short the match was very slow I caught a few small Roach to start with on the punch down the track and then just the odd Perch on the worm over by the far reeds, Ollie to my right never had a bite while John to my left had just 2 Perch for 6oz I put 1lb 10z 8drams to win my section. Pegs 1-3 were first, second & third Martin on peg one had 6lb odd for 3rd, Shaun on peg 2 had 9lb odd for 1'st and Frank on peg 3 had 7lb for 2nd, my mate John Babb was on peg 4 the first peg on the new far bank where the work had been done and weighed in just ounces having to watch the first 3 pegs bagging up! There were 2 more weights over 1lb in our section but mine was the best of them, below the bridge there was a 4lb and a 2lb but on the other 8 pegs no one broke a 1lb, it was hard match but at least I had a few bites and won a Turkey it looked like all the building work and noise had forced most of the fish up to the end of the section.