Anybody Catching

nice fish bud

Two cracking fish there Roly, well done

had this one today 12lb 8oz also had another just over 7lb

well in lads need to get out fishing myself soon, wont be long before the pike rods will be packed away for the season.
but having said that i do want to do a bit of boat fishing probably mainly on the lures. having just reg the boat in the lakes a few weeks ago.

Yeah nice one Mad Bad!
Some very nice fish showing up on this thread of late.
Hope to get out early next week and see if I can find another!
Well in lads.

Glad you managed to get them out Gaz i was worried you were going to blank mate

I've added another 5 to my list in the last 2 days
3 while i was with Gaz yesterday and 2 the day before that takes my total this season ( pike season ) up to 44
Can't seem to find the big girls though 16lb being the best so far
Off on a local river next week so fingers crossed

Adie

adie1200 wrote:Glad you managed to get them out Gaz i was worried you were going to blank mate

I've added another 5 to my list in the last 2 days
3 while i was with Gaz yesterday and 2 the day before that takes my total this season ( pike season ) up to 44
Can't seem to find the big girls though 16lb being the best so far
Off on a local river next week so fingers crossed

Adie

44 , I've only had 9
In fact since 31/10/93 first pike to 17/12/96 I only had 36 then stopped fishing, went a couple of times in 06 and caught 1, Then from 19/11/11 to present ive had 12,
A grand total of 49, I'm either doing some thing wrong or I'm moving to Yorkshire

Thats because Yorkshire is gods own county and he looks after his own

This will sound like I am bragging now but your posts have made me realise how good we have it over here in Ireland. I have just had a friend over and we Pike fished for 6 days straight, We had between the 2 of us 99, runs and landed 58 pike. The best fish being Neils at 23lb 11oz. he had 2 17lb fish too. (he comes from Norfolk and has never had fishing like it). Long live the Irish hard fighting Pike.

He managed a nice brace too at 17lb 3oz and 9lb.

Good fishing that mate

And feel free to brag away

Change of plan stuff Yorkshire I'm moving to Ireland

Its easy when they are having it!!!! and hard when they arent I had a brace of 8lb trout two weeks ago and they were a real bonus. Both on deadbaits too. Nice surprise. I will post the photos later.

lowdouble wrote:This will sound like I am bragging now but your posts have made me realise how good we have it over here in Ireland. I have just had a friend over and we Pike fished for 6 days straight, We had between the 2 of us 99, runs and landed 58 pike. The best fish being Neils at 23lb 11oz. he had 2 17lb fish too. (he comes from Norfolk and has never had fishing like it). Long live the Irish hard fighting Pike.

He managed a nice brace too at 17lb 3oz and 9lb.

Oh just wait til imagrants hear of this

Roly wrote:Two fish from the River Barrow, south east Ireland. Both fish in the last seven days, had a few jacks too and a friend had another double...

good goin , those river pike look in great condition compared to the obese pot bellies

well done guys

Wild trout from a wild water, Both caught in 30ft of water within 10 minutes of each other on small roach 4oz deads, a real nice surprise. 8lb 9oz and 8lb 5oz. Thats 5 over 8lb now and I really want a double.

Lovely big trout mate. I would suggest joey mackerel for big trout mate. It works on every brownie water I know of and it's accounted for more big trout to pikers than I can shake a stick at. On a couple of waters I know, you get pestered by big trout using mackerel and if I was to scale down, use single hooks and maybe a lighter trace material, I'd hook up far more often but it's never the target. It's what I'd be using if I was inclined though.

Very tempting now that I'm thinking abut it...

The water I caught these from has done fish to over 15lb but I have witnessed them to 11lb 8oz on Mackeral from here. I like the thoughts of what could be next and these huge Irish waters keep you guessing. Love it You dont really have to scale down for the Trout as they are probably greedier for than the pike, the times they miss and re hit a lure over and over again in unreal. They arent stupid but they are a fierce predator at that size.

Last week had five days fishing on a private loch in Scotland again, we had 28 fish the two biggest 13.5 & 15 lb

well done guys lovely markings on the fish.

got my boat registered on windermere so will be having a few trips out in the future pal just have to pick my days ie weather have you been back on the lake yet...........

Not had the boat out yet been doing some small jobs on it. Going to run the engine tomorrow and check out the

electronics. My plan was to have it ready for the end of March hopefully when the weather warms up. Are you

still up for a trip out?

cracking Scotish fish!

Ian

Hi again. Yes that loch as a lot of pike in it and some big girls to but the biggest I have is only 20lb will be

back there again in September.

Going to go now and run the boat engine up and get it all ready. Are you still up for a trip as well.

Ian

psion wrote:
Not had the boat out yet been doing some small jobs on it. Going to run the engine tomorrow and check out the

electronics. My plan was to have it ready for the end of March hopefully when the weather warms up. Are you

still up for a trip out?

yes pal need to come down look at launch sites never got time to have a look around with the dog being ill had to get home quick