Liverpool Echo

BRIDGEWATER CANAL: Plenty of action from skimmer bream, roach, hybrids and perch, at Grappenhall, London Bridge, Lymm Village, the Expressway Bridges at Runcorn and Norton ...

LEEDS-LIVERPOOL CANAL: Worm can provide lots of action providing you don’t mind handling eels that are weighing up to 2lb in the deeper water of the boat channel on 9 metre poles. Tench and bream are ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana

'You get to fly': Why Dutch athletes pole vault over canals

Athletes run to a carbon pole positioned with one end in the canal and tilted toward the bank. They run along a jetty to the pole, grab on and try to shin up the pole as fast as possible before ...