caught on a piece of worm

nicky · May 7, 2011

Really struggling for bites to day so scaled down to a size 20 next thing the float dipped so i struck and fish on could tell it was a bit bigger than the few small roach i had caught but thought it doesn't feel like a tench or a carp turned out to be a small pike hooked in the scissors ive seen similar happen before to other people but its a first for me.

bigchub · May 7, 2011

At the back end of last season I couldn't stop catching pike on luncheon meat intended for chub. Have also had them on worm like you, bread, sweetcorn, maggots and casters.

Lord Paul of Sheffield · May 7, 2011

Never done it but I did see a small jack caught on a red maggot fished for roach - bloke landed it

sagalout · May 8, 2011

I had a jack of about 2lb take my flat bed feeder on the retrieve on thursday. When I think of all the hours I spent over the winter with specialist spinning rods, braid, and small oil producing nation's gdp worth of lures without a bite..........

nicky · May 8, 2011

yes typical isn't it i had a very poor pike season last winter banked one and lost about 7 with a strange run of bad luck, just doubled my return.

No wonder i couldn't get many bites i was fishing about half a rod length out first fish was a perch of about 1/2 lb few tiny roach then a pike they must have been ambushing the fish that were sitting over my feed, as i played the pike i saw him spit a small roach out.

barbel liam · May 11, 2011

I caught a 7lb zander about three years ago fishing lob worm on my local stretch of the canal, I think predators eat worm more often than we think, there going to be a common food source in all waters & to a predator coming out of the trance of winter there easy pickings.

Keith M · May 12, 2011

A friend of mine caught a 16lb Pike on a red boilee as it sank to the bottom on the first night of the season a few years ago. The Pike was probably just grabbing anything near it that moved.

In the past I have caught a Jack of around 2 or 3lb on a worm too but only once.

Peter Jacobs · May 12, 2011

A couple of seasons ago I was down on the Avon at Britford trying to show Claudia Crowther (remember her?) how to trot a float for Roach and Dace, using maggot as feed and hook bait.

The swim built well to a bite per cast then went a little quiet.

I told Claudia that probably there were a few small Pike in the swim when my float dipped, I struck, and proceeded to play a jack of about 3 pounds, on a Dawa Amorphous rod, 3lb main line and 1.5lb B/S/ hook length, off of a Purist centrepin, with a size 18' hook and single red maggot.

I had just got it almost to the landing net when the largest swirl I've ever seen occured right by the jack pike and a fully grown 'mother' of well over 20lbs tried to grab herself an early supper.

I virtually swung the jack out of the water and onto the bank while the bailiff (Stuart) stood there telling us that was the largest pike in his section of the river.

Fishingdownthewindy · May 12, 2011

I have caught a number of pike on red maggot and worm on the thames, it is a bit of a shock, had a fish around 7 lb let go of a swimfeeder just before the net too.

Maggie · May 12, 2011

I've caught Jack Pike on a worm on more than one occasion when I was after Perch, usually as I'm winding in.

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Specihunter · May 13, 2011

I had a jack pick on red maggot feeder so this does happen.

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