Gripped within what seems to be a never-ending cold spell these past few weeks, a time that has seen many waters throughout the region covered in thick ice, fishing has, as many will agree, been extremely difficult on some venues recently.
On reflection, it seems such a long long time ago that my precious ice breaker was a crucial part of my own ‘winter kit’. A time,when, as a keen canal match angler, I’d pride myself in creating a perfectly shaped cut-out within the thick ice before me to fish.
Like many, always doing my finest to give myself the best chance on a difficult circuit, everyone present would carefully create channels across the canal, taking great care not to ‘shift’ the main stay, which if broken, would move across our dedicated area preventing access.
