With an hour or so to kill I wandered down to a nearby stretch I hadn't fished for a year or so. Clearly nobody else had been down there for some time as the brambles and remains of the nettles made getting about hard work. Added to this the weed also proved to be a problem, as it tends to be as it dies back at this time of year, leaving lumps drifting about in the current.
As the water here is no more than a couple of foot deep, at the most, I opted for a small fire tiger 4play. The great advantage of this lure, apart from been shallow diving, is it only needs to be retrieved slowly in the current to impart a lot of movement. A great advantage when there's only a 4-6' gap to move it through. Between battling the undergrowth and picking weed from the lure I managed two skinny, but athletic jack pike and had an other throw the hooks.
A great way to waste away an hour, as these athletic jacks go crazy in the shallow water and punch well above their weight.
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