2011 - Södertälje canal on the English Xmas day - 25th December !!!

The weather reports indicated mild weather for the Xmas period and with the tail-end of a Hurricane that had travelled from the USA it dried out any snow formations in our area. So , with +10 degrees available i could not miss the chance to fish so unexpectedly late in the year.

Travelled as light as possible

It looks dark but i was setting up under a street lamp

Somewhere down there was the waters edge

My mix for the day was Traper leam and Mondial Black Bream from

  http://www.metebutiken.se/

and VDE Super match from 
http://www.swedbait.se/

I started and had 2 roach immediately then blanked for the next 30-40 minutes . But then the Johan Pickering-Tikkanen arrived and was soon set up and 'in the mix'

I used the Dino Super carp R 2.5gr float at 3m depth fished at 11m with 0.10/18 Sensas Feeling hook. I wanted the float to be stable in an increasing wind situation. The canal had quite a strong tow from left to right .

Perfect !

Johan set up a slider

and the pole

Local anglers came down for a chat and as the sun got stronger the fishing got worse with no bites !

Then with a little bit more concentration Johan especially started to take a few fish.

End of a great weather day but a poor fishing day for some strange reason ? My net contained only 5 roach ! and Johan had doubled that with 11.

Great to get sun rays on your face for a few hours this time of the year. My day got brighter as when i returned home i decided to read the first chapters of my local hero a kind gift from Johan at Xmas , with a glass or 2 of red wine , off course !