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[denzinho]

Ok decided to completely go against the dead bait as it just smells and I dont like the smell of "dead" fish. going to pop to the local tackle shop and pick up a couple of lures and spinners.... will post results if still interested.

Went for 2 hours as that's all the spare time I had and It wasn't bad... I caught a Perch first cast on a size 5 spinner yet the perch was around 7oz greedy fella. I moved every 20 minutes and found a nice little area where I could see lots of fish activity. I Tried everything but nothing was happening for the 20 minutes I was there on spinners.


I decided to give it another 10 minutes with my trusty SG dirty roach jelly lure, I didnt catch any pike but one of around 4-5lb took my lure right as I was going to lift it from the water. I was buzzing after that because I'd at least seen one!. Going again Friday but this time!!! I will be using deadbaits and maggots. I'm feeling confident this will work, and maybe should of been less naive and just went with deads in the first place

 

[rubio]

Went for couple of hours myself with the company of my nephew. He'd never caught a pike and wanted to. He managed to get one twice the size of mine at around 1lb. My own specimen was a 'killer from the egg'. Barely a palm full of death.
Magic bait? Livies deads and lures all failed but the tiniest of redworms meant for dace were gobbled up. They never read the right info fish!

 

[denzinho]

Ok managed to get out today for around 4 hours. Maybe get out again tomorrow hopefully.

I bought some sprats as there cheap and so am I and also bought 1/2 a pint of maggots as advised.

It went well I guess, the last swim where I had a take on a lure in a previous session was the one that saw my float go under. I fished all the previous swims but nothing which was unfortunate. What a fight! really enjoyed it, I was using a 3/0 single hook as I cannot deal with trebles there a nightmare and can get messy.

The hook fell out in the net which simplified unhooking but I checked the guy over anyhow for rigs etc

I reckon around 3-4lb, no big girl by any means but being relatively new to pike fishing I'm a happy chappy.


Thank you everyone for your thoughts and wisdom, I have learnt so much in the time I have been posting on here. What can I say.....Your awesome! :thumbs:

 

[rubio]

Small for sure but nicely marked and every inch a killer.