Anybody Catching part two

piketastic wrote:I haven't had much to shout about this season , so been relatively quiet. Over the years I have been GENUINELY gutted at catching 3 or 4 beauties at 19.14 or 19.15 �� ( sad but true)  so I suppose karma works itself out and a 20.01 will just do fine ....... So here she is from yesterday.

very nice ...well in pal
looks in tip top condition too......

Stunning colours there. Love the orange in the fins, and just the right side of twenty as well. Well done!

Well done all those catching some nice looking end of season Pike. I've put the Pike gear away now until October and have turned my attention to the big Bream that reside in a club water that I'm a member of - my target being a 12Lbs+ Bream. Come June, I'll be after Catfish from another clubs waters, interspersed with the Bream fishing.

8 hrs trolling,  many miles covered and one single take,    6lb 4oz and 65cm long.  great fight on 12lb test and a few scary moments   I love wild spotties

piketastic wrote:I haven't had much to shout about this season , so been relatively quiet. Over the years I have been GENUINELY gutted at catching 3 or 4 beauties at 19.14 or 19.15 😀 ( sad but true)  so I suppose karma works itself out and a 20.01 will just do fine ....... So here she is from yesterday.

well in craig ;-)

Nice fish to the end the season.

Nice fish😉

Thankyou all....... Perhaps time for just one more trip 😉

Sorry Craig lol I put your pic on and forgot to congratulate you
Well done mate lovely looking pike bud
I've got loads of deadbait left I really must get out and use some before weather gets too warm
Not been a good season for me health wise it has stopped me from going for most of the season I hope next season will be a better one

adie1200 wrote:Sorry Craig lol I put your pic on and forgot to congratulate you
Well done mate lovely looking pike bud
I've got loads of deadbait left I really must get out and use some before weather gets too warm
Not been a good season for me health wise it has stopped me from going for most of the season  I hope next season will be a better one

sorry to hear that adie, hope you are well now?

I finished my season with a jack yesterday. I have had 30 trips out - caught 64 pike from 10 different venues, biggest only 15lb and blanked
7 times.
Considering the weather and a knee problem I can't complain. In some ways I am glad it's over as it has been hard work at times.
I will be out in the boat over the next two months chasing big trout, which will be my last boat season as I will be selling it in the summer.
Sorry to hear that you have not been well, Adie, hope you will be better for next season.

Yesterday was my last trip of the season actually targeting pike. It started off well with 2 runs and 2 fish , long lean jacks of around 8 pounds each. But that was it .
I scraped the ice off the car that morning, then sat fishing in beautiful sunshine, more akin to carp fishing before hailstone and then rain made me pack up. I wasn't feeling it .
I don't know what's going on with this weather 😀
So my next trips will be by design and I will be targeting the midlands canals. There's a double figure Zander waiting for me somewhere, I'm sure of it. . . . . Last year when I targeted them though , 6 trips , 6 pike in a row and no Zander was enough to make me put my rods away. ( one of the pike was 22 anall 😉)
Anyway Zander here I come.
Good luck you lot !

[img][/img][img][/img] had an hour to spare so called in on a tiny pond down the road and had this feisty jack 1st cast out , had a bigger fish later but came off

Well done lads, i wouldnt mind a zander too Craig. none here in Ireland so that looks unlikely for me too lol

7 little wild trout to 1.5lb and 5 jacks, all on the troll. great days sport even without any monsters

A truly brilliant day trolling small 3" roach,  4lb 4oz,  7lb 2oz and a new PB 10lb 5oz trout.   All as wild as can be and stunning creatures too.   Wahoooooo  PBs are hard come by☺



And the small one lol,  some paddle on her☺

Just no stopping you is there Andy
Nice fish mate 😉

If it has fins and is wet, I love to catch them lol. cheers Adie

Very nice indeed. Double figure wild trout is nothing to be sniffed at!

Fish of a lifetime J unreal capture. Happy Andy

the lough is 1780 acres, so finding them is a problem lol, but trolling miles and miles in the spring sunshine is not too much of a headache lol, I want a 15 now

Nice fish I tried to catch a big trout on Saturday but no luck. I have put my boat on here for sale If anyone wants to have a look.

took the wife for a few hours,  big mistake lol,  2 Pike and this huge wild brownie and zero for me☺

Hahaha! That's a monster - what was the weight? Or is it too painful to share that detail!

I honestly thought she had beaten my PB and was ready to throw her overboard lol,  8lb 14oz of truly wild fish, fatter than my 10lb 5oz but 4" too short lol.  fought like a demon and went back fine.  she had a 7lb pike and a 2lb jack too.  I blanked J