ouchthathurt
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A nod to had1lost2 who started the currently carping thread, I have swiped and rehashed the title!
After the recent new PB of a 6lb 9oz daughter (wifey was furious when I tried to use the gaff) I have been up to my elbows in nappies and baby clothes, but with paternity leave fast coming to an end, wifey decided that I best get the rods out at least once for a few hours before returning to work.
I have been rediscovering my childhood love of pike fishing, spurred on by my younger son wanting to catch his first pike, something I have advised against unless fishing with an experienced piker, so as it looks like we will be pike fishing when he’s down, I have been getting my pike gear out to have a go, the last session just before baby was born was a blank, I was pestered by eels that took a shine to my roach deads.
This time, I hit the bank with a nice selection of deadbaits, sprats, lampreys, roach and my personal favourite, rainbow trout (caught my first pike on trout) so I set up my two rods with a simple running ledger using 1.1oz leads to a home tied wire trace consisting of fox 26lb wire to 2 x size 6 trebles. One rod was baited with sprat and the other with lamprey. Having flicked them both to the drop off ledge, I sat back to wait the drop off of an indicator. After many a sleepless night, nodding off was an issue, so I turned the alarms up and tried to doze, but it was pretty bitter with an air temp of 3c.
It was a long, slow day with no interest to my baits, the lines didn’t even twitch all day. Come the evening, I decided to have one last cast with rainbow trout down the margins, which was also left untouched. Calling it quits I decided to reel in and head home. When I reel in, I always slowly twitch the bait back rather than just crank it in, so I twitched the rainbow trout back towards me. 10yrds out, I felt a thump as something hit the bait, I stuck into a jagged fight, a few mins later this obliging jack slid to hand, nicely hooked in the lip. Although small, it saved the blank! I headed home happy, looking forward to getting back soon.
After the recent new PB of a 6lb 9oz daughter (wifey was furious when I tried to use the gaff) I have been up to my elbows in nappies and baby clothes, but with paternity leave fast coming to an end, wifey decided that I best get the rods out at least once for a few hours before returning to work.
I have been rediscovering my childhood love of pike fishing, spurred on by my younger son wanting to catch his first pike, something I have advised against unless fishing with an experienced piker, so as it looks like we will be pike fishing when he’s down, I have been getting my pike gear out to have a go, the last session just before baby was born was a blank, I was pestered by eels that took a shine to my roach deads.
This time, I hit the bank with a nice selection of deadbaits, sprats, lampreys, roach and my personal favourite, rainbow trout (caught my first pike on trout) so I set up my two rods with a simple running ledger using 1.1oz leads to a home tied wire trace consisting of fox 26lb wire to 2 x size 6 trebles. One rod was baited with sprat and the other with lamprey. Having flicked them both to the drop off ledge, I sat back to wait the drop off of an indicator. After many a sleepless night, nodding off was an issue, so I turned the alarms up and tried to doze, but it was pretty bitter with an air temp of 3c.
It was a long, slow day with no interest to my baits, the lines didn’t even twitch all day. Come the evening, I decided to have one last cast with rainbow trout down the margins, which was also left untouched. Calling it quits I decided to reel in and head home. When I reel in, I always slowly twitch the bait back rather than just crank it in, so I twitched the rainbow trout back towards me. 10yrds out, I felt a thump as something hit the bait, I stuck into a jagged fight, a few mins later this obliging jack slid to hand, nicely hooked in the lip. Although small, it saved the blank! I headed home happy, looking forward to getting back soon.