Brian(Badger) Brocklehurst
New member
Well having pondered for quite a while, and recieving some excellent advice on here I bought a 5metre whip. Took it on holiday to Norfolk mainly for the wife to use as I am not supposed to be fishing yet, she was doing quite well with it but needed a comfort break so I took over and was catching roach up to 1/2lb. Then a pike decided to take a roach of 2oz I was bringing in, well expecting the line to break I just held on but the pike stayed attached , only having a small net of 22 inches I asked the bloke fishing the next swim if he could net it for me, he obliged the pike was more out of the net than in wieghing about 18lb I had no landing mat with me but did have forceps luckily he was only liphooked and once the hook removed he was returned to a small sidecut to recover. I am well hooked on this sort of fishing now. I also bought whilst there a shakespeare mustang 6metre whip(takeapart) reduced from £35 to £17.50.