Typical Spiders Comment! I'll bet he's never fished the Chesterfield Canal!
This canal is one of the best waters of it's kind in the country, containing everything from thundering great chub to 30 pound carp and from 2 lb roach to 6 pound tench.
But it does not give it's fish up easily.
One item of tackle you will need is a pole, and it doesn't have to be an expensive one as the Chesterfield is not a wide canal.
It does have a preponderance of bushes and trees on the far side where you will need to push your float tackle in order to get a fish, hence the use of a pole.
Try worms with chopped worm cupped in, or small pieces of breadflake. The matchman's technique is to use bread punch, but I would use a fair pinch of bread on a 12 hook to 3lb fluorocarbon.
Anywhere midweek in the Shireoaks area will most likely prove to be free fishing, unless a bailiff turns up from Worksop AA. And then it's only about 3 quid.
