A Days Pike Fishing.

Hi guys, its been a little while since my last post and to be honest this one is form a trip last weekend so its not completely fresh in my mind but I remember most of it. I received a message from a friend of mine telling me that he and another friend were heading out to fish the reservoir for it's Carp, this was not something I was particularly interested in at the time, however I have not seen these guys in quite some time and it was good to catch up with them! I decided to head down and fish for the Pike, hopefully you will remember Dan and Bironn from previous posts on here, once we had arrived the guys set up on what they called the causeway swims, I don't think they are actually called that but I would need to consult my map of the site to find out. I decided to help them get set up and started having a lead around for to find a few clear spots while they sorted rigs and stuff, once done I clipped up the rod for them and proceeded to set up my rod  and pick a lure. For the first few hours I sat with the guys socialising having a few odd casts in between from the swims either side of theirs, until I decided to go for my first walk around the water, I went off for just over 45 minutes and cast in nearly every swim I could until I finally snagged up and lost my trace, I decided to head back over to the guys to sit and chat while I set myself back up again,  a few hours past by before I knew it and I had not done any fishing so I headed off again, this time I walked the entirety of the reservoir without as much as a follow, to be honest I feel its still to warm for the pike and with the water being crazy deep in some places I was kind of on a fools hope thinking I might get one out!

          By this point it was getting dark so we packed up and decided to stop off and fish the waterworks just up the road from the res to try save the blank for the day, this turned out to be a great idea as both Bironn and myself managed to do so, unfortunately Dan didn't get any bites but he said himself he wasn't feeling it and as we all know if your minds not in it then your not enjoying it and probably going to fail!

               We started off casting around until I noticed a fish show mid river and decided to cast a Berkley yellow shad from the Pike pack upstream and straight retrieved it, I felt a small bump followed by a huge crash to which I struck into a great looking little Pike.

The guys were great and both of them sprung to help as soon as I gave the shout I was in, Bironn grabbed the net and scoped up the fish, meanwhile Dan had sorted all unhooking equipment, lighting and even grabbed a camera ready to snap a few shots!

       Now it was Bironn's turn to get a fish, to be honest I'm not sure of the tactics he used I just heard him shout "I got one hooked up" and rushed to return the favour with the net, once again Dan was on top of things where everything else was concerned.

After returning his fish we all decided to have 'just one last cast' as all anglers do, this however was on account of some big blue flashes behind us and with a thunderstorm forecast that day we weren't taking any chances holding carbon rods in the air!

           This turned out to be a great shout for me as I managed to hook into another really good looking Pike this time on the light green shad from the same Berkley pack I believe its called the mullet version, I was absolutely over the moon with how this part of the session had gone!

This one was a little bit bigger than the first and with only being there a maximum of 30 minutes it just goes to prove half an hour in the right spot is better than a whole day in the wrong one!

 

         Thanks for reading guys and until next time stay safe and good luck with any fishing you may be doing!