my opinion on canal fishing is a lot dont fish them now due to access and parking.in the last week i have fished the leeds /liverpool 3 times most recently on tuesday in between the locks at town lane wheelton chorley .when i arrived looked over the bridge frozen so had walk down a couple of locks and it was ice free
.went back got my gear all of 80yds walk and off i went,took an hour to get a bite and i never saw the fish bottomed my elastic out and broke me,5s elastic to .08 bottom .12 mainline single caster
took another half hour to get another bite finished up with 2 big skimmers around the pound mark.enjoyable 4 hrs even though it was cold .