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Good luck bat 👍 I'm tempted to do tomorrow afternoon somewhere into dark for a bit !!!!
Pete , great fish pal , first double this season of many more to come 😀

well done lads , some lovely fish being caught , but not by me , I,m on a bad run of 4 blanks , 2 deadbait sessions, a blank after cod, and a blank on the lures along a canal this afternoon , ah well theres always next saturday , I hate the winter when I can only fish once a week

piketastic wrote:Good luck bat 👍 I'm tempted to do tomorrow afternoon somewhere into dark for a bit !!!!
Pete , great fish pal , first double this season of many more to come 😀

bunch of ships into dark mate?? go on you know it makes sense

Haha. Will tx u. 👍

well went out for 2 nights and managed 2 15's in an hour and half, then blanked for the next 36 hrs. 1 down side though, while unhooking the second fish in the dark i put my hand under the gill cover, as you do to open its mouth and felt a hook on my little finger, before i could do anything, fish jumped and i felt the hook bury into my finger with the other hook in the fish the fish went mad for about 10 seconds then the hook ripped out my finger. didnt dare look so unhooked it weighed it and put it back. back in the bivvy i could survey the damage and it wasnt pretty:( big hole where my little finger pad used to be an pouring out blood (in the day light next day you would have thought a murder had taken place on my unhooking mat), so wrapped a towel round it while i had a think. i always carry a first aid kit, so took it out and weighed up my options. first step ANTI SEPTIC wash and cream, then made 2 butterfly stitches out of micro pour tape, then 2 big plasters to cover it all up jobs a good un only other choice would have been to pack up, and as we all know no need for that be careful guys.

ha ha well in mate,, mmmm just a flesh wound

Ouch sounds painful Gaz well in for carrying on mate that's dedication for you
Next time though use your forceps like anyone else would

Well done on the fish Gaz. Nice to see you getting amongst them pal.

iam a blanker 2 lads
not a sniff yesturday at that new place.its a very small water nice set up not sure it was my kind of place tho.may try get a few hrs in my self on the rez today

I fish a local game fishery for the roach in there (which over winter are nearly all incredibly tiny at about 40 fish to the pound, but useful groundbait for pike. Over summer you get some lovely roach to over a pound, and tench too). There have recently been a handful of pike to 9lb introduced to control the roach and almost without fail they attack my keep net every session. As in grab the net and barrel roll - it's quite exciting. I nearly always manage to land one of them each session with a float fished roach next to the net, but that is the only piking I'm getting at the moment. It is remarkable the attractive powers of 100 small roach in a small keep net!

silkmen wrote:

the bat wrote:My regular venue is very slow so I'm going to to try somewhere else,virtually untapped with rumours of very big(unofficial😏)pike

can u only fish it on week days pete unless u work there

wonder if its the same venue I have been trying to get on , when you said work there , its got to be the same heard a very big fish came out last season .

had a cracking afternoon on the rez 5 fish lost a couple aswell all on roach again flat on the bottom with a bit of mackeral oil injected.had 1 reeling in when packing up fiest time thats hsppened on there.

well in pal....... good session

lowdouble wrote:that is a stunner Psion mate,  absolute beauty.    We had a good day today too,  Mick who had never seen a Pike let alone caught one opened his account after about 10 minutes with a 3lb beauty lol.   by the end of the day he had landed 9,  lost 2, and PB after PB later sneaked this belter over the rim of the net    He thinks this pike fishing is easy now lol.  Different water tomorrow so maybe bigger and better,  maybe not

looks a good venue pal .....your into them pal.... wellin just cant seem to get out , something happening for the last 4 weekends...... family shite

no matter what I will be fishing somewhere this weekend........

Nice one Jacob . Getting a bit bigger on there pal

yes mate they looking alot better now.that little un was stuffed with fish in belly you could feel them.

Nice bit of sport Silkmen, great to see them in such good condition too Its a venue i only fish a couple of times a year as its usually jack after jack. It threw up a descent fish which just goes to prove we never know it all lol. The winter is here full on stubbo. Time to get busy and catch a few lumps mate

Out this afternoon roach bashing on the pole, but got a nice 7lb 12oz pike just a couple of feet from my keep net. Fell to a 4" roach on a single, barbless hook. Find myself increasingly choosing to avoid trebles. Unhooking is such a doddle, and they are nearly always hooked in the scissors. A 7lber is a small fish, but hooked 5ft from the bank on a tiny 6ft kayak rod, it's quite exciting.

Nice one jake that's a good days fishing bud

MAD BAD ANGLER wrote:well went out for 2 nights and managed 2 15's in an hour and half, then blanked for the next 36 hrs. 1 down side though, while unhooking the second fish in the dark i put my hand under the gill cover, as you do to open its mouth and felt a hook on my little finger, before i could do anything, fish jumped and i felt the hook bury into my finger with the other hook in the fish the fish went mad for about 10 seconds then the hook ripped out my finger. didnt dare look so unhooked it weighed it and put it back. back in the bivvy i could survey the damage and it wasnt pretty:( big hole where my little finger pad used to be an pouring out blood (in the day light next day you would have thought a murder had taken place on my unhooking mat), so wrapped a towel round it while i had a think. i always carry a first aid kit, so took it out and weighed up my options.  first step ANTI SEPTIC wash and cream, then made 2 butterfly stitches out of micro pour tape, then 2 big plasters to cover it all up jobs a good un only other choice would have been to pack up, and as we all know no need for that  be careful guys.

no stranger to that pal
had my share of pike tug of war on trebles ...oooch

the bat wrote:Well done lads,some lovely fish there.been for a recce on a new water today and gonna fish it tomorrow,wish me 🍀 luck😊

good luck pal
I have pm you

J Robinson wrote:Out this afternoon roach bashing on the pole, but got a nice 7lb 12oz pike just a couple of feet from my keep net. Fell to a 4" roach on a single, barbless hook. Find myself increasingly choosing to avoid trebles. Unhooking is such a doddle, and they are nearly always hooked in the scissors. A 7lber is a small fish, but hooked 5ft from the bank on a tiny 6ft kayak rod, it's quite exciting.

Sounds like its stuffed with roach mate good fun though on a light pole and handy for free bait as well
I know it can't be helped hooking them in the scissors but I wish there was a way to avoid it i'm not a lovely of hooking in the scissors as it can dislocate the jaw but it can't be helped and if someone comes up with a way to avoid it please let me know

I had a 13-01 and a 7,my mate had an 11-08,never seen a hook😉

silkmen wrote:had a cracking afternoon on the rez 5 fish lost a couple aswell all on roach again flat on the bottom with a bit of mackeral oil injected.had 1 reeling in when packing up fiest time thats hsppened on there.

nice one jake😉

adie1200 wrote:

J Robinson wrote:Out this afternoon roach bashing on the pole, but got a nice 7lb 12oz pike just a couple of feet from my keep net. Fell to a 4" roach on a single, barbless hook. Find myself increasingly choosing to avoid trebles. Unhooking is such a doddle, and they are nearly always hooked in the scissors. A 7lber is a small fish, but hooked 5ft from the bank on a tiny 6ft kayak rod, it's quite exciting.

Sounds like its stuffed with roach mate good fun though on a light pole and handy for free bait as well  
I know it can't be helped hooking them in the scissors but I wish there was a way to avoid it i'm not a lovely of hooking in the scissors as it can dislocate the jaw but it can't be helped    and if someone comes up with a way to avoid it please let me know

like I said earlier been there and done the single hook thing , better for the fish to stick with trebles , theres more chance it would hook up in another part of the mouth , for me the pikes welfare comes first.....