As the weather has been so poor and with my failed carp trip in the week, due to a frozen lake and only 4 hours free.  I though it was time to get the Pike rod’s out.  So off down the river for a bit of roving with a dead bait.  The river was still in flood, it was a bit hard to find a swim. However, I found a nice bit of slack water by a bridge, that will do for a start.

I stayed here for about an hour ,before I moved up river to an old boathouse.  This was under water due to the flooding, but it is a great area for Pike. I had to put my waders on, as the path was under water.

Once though the water, I set up and cast out.  Within a few minutes, the Pike float had given a big knock and not long after that, a nice 10lb Pike was in the net.  Time to move again, I will stop there on the way back and hope it’s big brother is there.

I found some more slack water up stream and after about 30 minutes, the float was under water again and after a bit of a battle another 10lb + pike was in the net.

Off to find another spot

I had been using mackerel up to this point, but I only had one more, so time to change over to smelt.

Well, after about an hour with no joy on the smelt and the sun going down I was time to use my last mackerel back at the boathouse swim.  After an hour, when the sun was just going down, the float did a quick knock and then straight and I hit into a nice 12lb pike.,

That was not bad for a 4 hours session, 3 pike over the 10 Ibs mark.

Unfortunately, I forgot my camera and was only able to use my phone which is no good for self take pictures.

That’s all for now
Richard