Tuesday, 8 October 2024

Pike: Backflip


On the river in the rain - beating a flood? I found a massive shoal of bleak - and sat on them hoping a pike was keeping her eye on dinner. Just one run - a fantastic aerial fight - this thing pulled like a pike three times it's size! Brilliant, season number three.





And James has added The Fabulous River Wye to his 40 River Double Challenge. But he did it at night while I wasn't there to take the photo, perhaps he needs a daylight one?

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    1. Thanks, did help I set the camera to daylight!

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  2. Nice one on the Pike mate and cheers for the link mate!!! She was a mega fish.

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    1. Every trip that results in a pike is a win! Nice one with the barbel - I’ll have to get a Wye double barbel myself at some stage… A daylight one… :-)

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    2. A daylight one would be brilliant, thats the only (very very tiny negative) of my dark double, but will treasure it nonetheless.

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    3. Definitely a barbel to treasure, cracker!

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    4. It was one of those fish that I thought would take a very very long time to catch and given how many years you've fished it without one I feel I lucked out enormously!

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    5. I’ll get one this season (if I can drag myself away from those pike).

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