Really, in that case, I want to try cut the meat in big piece, small smelt size maybe and use treble hooks now.
I agree. I’ve definitely had more pike on meat or (red) boilies in the last few seasons than I’ve had barbel. They do fool you initially but the regular short bursts of speed soon give them away.
If you think that’s unusual look at what this bad boy had a taste for while I was tench fishing
Yeah that’s my theory as well. Never know though. There was an extremely large one come out on the Ouse at the beginning of the season to a carp angler on a boilie. I still don’t think it’s being bettered so far this season on that stretch.
I think the pike is after small fish when they get hooked the corn? Maybe the same for the luncheon meat or maybe the really like the meatIf you think that’s unusual look at what this bad boy had a taste for while I was tench fishing
I thought I’d hit a ballistic missile when I lifted into it on plastic corn
That’s a fish for life.I don’t want you to think I want to turn this into a “ mines bigger than yours” thread but MANY years ago, my 30th birthday as it happens, I banked a Pike, fairly hooked in the scissors, on a yellow boilie. There were mitigating circumstances however, the boilie was being retrieved behind a tri-lobe lead so the bait and lead had risen in the water column and probably looked like some sort of lure. I initially thought I had foul hooked a carp which were beginning to cruise the surface of the lake. Took a while to control it which added to my conviction of a foul hooking. Result was
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31lb 13oz of summer pike.
PS. Don’t mind the haircut please, it was nearly forty years ago
Out of curious, what about the hooks? Did you manage to retrieve any from the gutted pike
I don’t want you to think I want to turn this into a “ mines bigger than yours” thread but MANY years ago, my 30th birthday as it happens, I banked a Pike, fairly hooked in the scissors, on a yellow boilie. There were mitigating circumstances however, the boilie was being retrieved behind a tri-lobe lead so the bait and lead had risen in the water column and probably looked like some sort of lure. I initially thought I had foul hooked a carp which were beginning to cruise the surface of the lake. Took a while to control it which added to my conviction of a foul hooking. Result was
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31lb 13oz of summer pike.
PS. Don’t mind the haircut please, it was nearly forty years ago
Cheers Rhys, now it does shout “mine is bigger than yours”
The French will eat anything. They put Lancastrians to shame.Out of curious, what about the hooks? Did you manage to retrieve any from the gutted pike
Is pike good to eat? I know French likes to eat it.
The French do like their Pike. This was a fish counter in a nearby supermarket a few months ago.
Catfish is very tasty. The problem is, like all the fresh water fish, it has too many small bones.
