It’s been tough on the circuit this week as many rods, particularly the hardened winter canal match anglers, found that roach had completely switched off.
Going back to last Wednesday, incredibly not a single roach was caught within a field of 16 keen canal men competing in the L&DAA open match at Pilling Lane in Lydiate, lined up here before the boats, on what is also a predominately noted roach venue.
Why? Well, quite simply, we don’t know. But there’s no doubt somewhere within the ecological book of theories, there would be a possibility of nitrates, oxygen, pH levels or maybe high or low temperatures to be answerable.
