Anybody Catching

piketastic wrote:Hope you all got what you wanted for Xmas - sorry for the delay in getting this sorted, but just managed to send Adie a couple of pictures from Shaun, Nopikehere, great day a couple of weeks ago. Shaun will confirm but these are 2 of the 3 20s he had ( btw the user name couldn't be more wrong Shaun with a session like that)
Also there's the one I had last week , an ounce under 15.  Different venues I hasten to add.........as far as I'm aware anyway 😀😀😀😀

well in lads crackers yet again.iam off out tmoz for a few hrs with the wife for a change hope she catches ill probs give her first run lol

been out today and did not have a sniff ..and that goes for everyone else on there.

been out today with the wife i gave her 1st run a fush thats been caught 5 times already this season we took a photo put ut back.10 mins later her own rod goes off and low and behold its the same fish again lol.just a small jack for me and a dropped run

Well done guys and Ladies,  great fish.  I broke my run of luck today too with a lovely double 12lb 14oz.  i stupidly took a friend to one of my select swims lol.  and he promptly caught a 26lb 10oz and as we were resting her in the net his other rod went and he had to hand land a 20lb 4oz,  what a brace of fish in 3 minutes!!!!!!

Bloody hell, what a cracking brace that is, has he dried off yet after you pushed him in

Well done Lou love, out piked the husband again 👍
Andy what a nice guide you are !!! He's one jammy mate pal !
Fantastic

piketastic wrote:Well done Lou love, out piked the husband again 👍
Andy what a nice guide you are!!! He's one jammy mate pal !
Fantastic

How do we book this guided trip then, im up for a brace of twentys in 3 mins, quality, i bet you were chuffed to bits for him

lowdouble wrote:Well done guys and Ladies,  great fish.  I broke my run of luck today too with a lovely double 12lb 14oz.  i stupidly took a friend to one of my select swims lol.  and he promptly caught a 26lb 10oz and as we were resting her in the net his other rod went and he had to hand land a 20lb 4oz,  what a brace of fish in 3 minutes!!!!!!

cracking photo pal
a rare photo indeed..... well done

stubbo wrote:

lowdouble wrote:Well done guys and Ladies,  great fish.  I broke my run of luck today too with a lovely double 12lb 14oz.  i stupidly took a friend to one of my select swims lol.  and he promptly caught a 26lb 10oz and as we were resting her in the net his other rod went and he had to hand land a 20lb 4oz,  what a brace of fish in 3 minutes!!!!!!

cracking photo pal
a rare photo indeed..... well done

Cracking photo a brace of 20s is on my to do list.

Outstanding, and a great photo too!

Thanks very much lads,  I loved the photo too     this lough has given me personally 4 braces of 20s and can be fantastic.  but i have also done 5 blanks on a row on it.  when they are having it its easy fishing lol.  we just have to go through all the hard times too:D  The pike are nomadic as the lough is 50ft+ nearly everywhere and the pike seem to stick in their relevant size class.  if your first fish is a jack your nearly guaranteed jacks all day,  if the first is a whopper theres usually another close by.

lowdouble wrote:Thanks very much lads,  I loved the photo too     this lough has given me personally 4 braces of 20s and can be fantastic.  but i have also done 5 blanks on a row on it.  when they are having it its easy fishing lol.  we just have to go through all the hard times too:D  The pike are nomadic as the lough is 50ft+ nearly everywhere and the pike seem to stick in their relevant size class.  if your first fish is a jack your nearly guaranteed jacks all day,  if the first is a whopper theres usually another close by.

2 good fish there fella ..... now that would cheer me up after 4 blanks
out in the boat tomorrow ...heres hoping for at least a fish...

Nice fish. Is not often you see two twenty's on the bank at the same time.

Two belters there mate
I would settle for a pike of any size at the moment

adie1200 wrote:Two belters there mate
I would settle for a pike of any size at the moment

me too pal , really having a lean spell at the moment ,

I think a lot of anglers are struggling at the moment,apart from the last few days,its been warm.preyfish haven't moved into their winter quarters and so neither have the pike.it needs a few weeks of constant cold for them to move but I don't think we,ll get it.fish don't know what to do!

the bat wrote:I think a lot of anglers are struggling at the moment,apart from the last few days,its been warm.preyfish haven't moved into their winter quarters and so neither have the pike.it needs a few weeks of constant cold for them to move but I don't think we,ll get it.fish don't know what to do!

me thinks the fish could turn up anywhere , seen 2 pike strike at the prey fish in the shallow bays in 2 ft of water , to me that proves there not all shoaled up in the deeper areas , and the pike are more spread out over the venue. going to have a good mill around tomorrow try to locate some fish or stucture / drop offs with bait fish on them.

there's an odd one or two up the side we were on mate

rozzo wrote:there's an odd one or two up the side we were on mate

been on there today pal
but to foggy to troll about . did not want to disturb your fishing

found a big shoal of bait fish and sat on them with large deadbaits waiting for the biggy to be honest

glad one of your guys caught one of the big girls , worth the effort coming down .....well in

by the way i am on my 5th blank

Managed to get my first double of the season today at 14.10lb they were there I had 3 very shy bites they started going then just dropped it 😯 so I took my treble hook rig off and put a 2 single hook rig on same as treble hook rig but with single hooks instead after 10 minutes or so it was off again but this time it didn't drop it and this is the result a nice and very welcome pike


That was it for today but i am happy with the one plus it was a lovely day

well in Adie. get ready for the single hook police but good on you mate for ringing the changes and succeeding

adie1200 wrote:Managed to get my first double of the season today at 14.10lb  they were there I had 3 very shy bites they started going then just dropped it �� so I took my treble hook rig off and  put a 2 single hook rig on same as treble hook rig but with single hooks instead after 10 minutes or so it was off again but this time it didn't drop it and this is the result a nice and very welcome pike      

That was it for today but i am happy with the one plus it was a lovely day

well in adie...forgot what a pike looks like

My skinny pike from today

that's very nice but why are you holding it upside down whilst balancing on your head?

Well in Adie , nice chunky fish !
Pete your fish would have been as fat as Adies if it had some of them bacon sarnies we had today down its neck 😀