wanderer
Well-known member
I will give you a little scenario and then ask for your comments. This has a remote relevance to another thread on here, but impartial personal choice of what your own actions would be given the same circumstances. The year, somewhere in the late seventies, the time close season, May, the venue one of the big trout reservoirs in Southern England. Being a coarse angler by nature and merely whiling away the hours till the glorious 16th, you are floating around chucking flies at the rainbows when suddenly the rod thumps and you start stripping in your lunch, but then bang, all hell breaks loose and a giant pike leaps angrily out of the water with other ideas. The battle was lost, but on relating the tale over a pint you are told, go fish black lures deep in front of the Dam and you may get a shock. The angler in question did and hauled into the boat what was believed to be a record Pike, with only a couple of his mates witnessing the event, it was returned to the water and no one was told about it for years, and then only silent friends. There are coarse records of several species floating around and caught on these venues, what would you do, publicise or keep quite.
