Great article Graham. Just a couple of points from my own experience:
It's really important to explore every part of a swim before moving. This includes casting upstream. Pike can be attracted into the swim or stimulated to feed by the disturbance caused by casting. I normally give it 20 minutes on my first cast then cast around at 10 minute intervals.
I normally use the laying-on/stret pegging technique, but I always fish my bait with the top hook in the tail when doing this. My feeling is that this keeps the bait on the hooks more reliably and gives better hook ups, but that's only a personal preference.
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