Little Lure, Big Fish

Managed a couple of short midweek sessions. The first on a local pond, due to the rivers being out of sorts. I tried using a variety of small crank baits with nothing to show until I got to the last swim.  This was in a bay that I've never taken a pike from. Here a very lively pike of 7lb 3oz latched on to a Salmo Minnow. On the perch gear it put up an excellent fight, going airborne several times.

 










The next session was on the Aire & Calder Navigation. A couple of perch appeared quite quickly to a Salmo Rattlin Hornet followed by a small jack. It was another 40 minutes before I got another take which resulted in a 7lb 14oz pike which like the one earlier in the week, took to the air on several occasions. A third one followed soon after, again on the Rattlin Hornet. This one, at 9lb 14oz, stayed deep and took some effort to get to the net on perch gear.

 









 










By now the sun had disappeared behind the trees and it was getting bloody cold. Time to head home.