British pike record goes at chew valley Ames near Bristol

[South hams hunter 8,921]

It's a shame they've published where it was caught.

I've always wondered if you could present the bait the same we we do for things like huss and conger 

[TRUEBRIT66 1,502]

10 hours ago, Daniel cain said:

Llandegfedd Res ,not far fom me, still throws up some monsters...I know of 2 separate anglers (personally shown pics),that  have caught fish from it ,that weighted a good 2 pounds over the current British record at the time...the River Wye throws up some bompers too

Beautiful place Llandegfedd Res, hired a boat for fly fishing a few years back with my wife never had a touch but one of my best days fishing ever. Didnt Gareth Edwards hold the pike record from there for a while ? 

[Daniel cain 45,060]

24 minutes ago, TRUEBRIT66 said:

Beautiful place Llandegfedd Res, hired a boat for fly fishing a few years back with my wife never had a touch but one of my best days fishing ever. Didnt Gareth Edwards hold the pike record from there for a while ? 

Yes mate, Gareth Edwards rip,held the official record  for a few yrs

[tatsblisters 9,435]

10 hours ago, Daniel cain said:

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I have only seen them when buying them as dead bait especially the full one's and not lamprey sections the amount of blood that comes out of them is surprising. I remember years ago one was caught in what used to be the most polluted river in the country the river don that runs through what used to be the big steel industry in South Yorkshire and it made the local rags with some environmentalists saying it was proof the river was getting better after the demise of a lot of the heavy industry in that area. 

[mackem 26,224]

13 hours ago, mC HULL said:

seen about four bigger with me own eyes mate 

You must have been fishing at Lake Shippagew (watch what happens to the Irish wolfhound).

 

[NEWKID 27,088]

17 minutes ago, tatsblisters said:

I have only seen them when buying them as dead bait especially the full one's and not lamprey sections the amount of blood that comes out of them is surprising. I remember years ago one was caught in what used to be the most polluted river in the country the river don that runs through what used to be the big steel industry in South Yorkshire and it made the local rags with some environmentalists saying it was proof the river was getting better after the demise of a lot of the heavy industry in that area. 

Seen them a fair few times in the River Exe, found a decent size one, probably 3lb or so washed up there, last time I fished with Sean C off here there was one swimming around, looked like it was pissed!! Lol, which we netted out for a look, strange looking things for sure..

[Neal 1,857]

38 minutes ago, mackem said:

You must have been fishing at Lake Shippagew (watch what happens to the Irish wolfhound).

 

There's a book called The Pike written by Cliff Twemlow. It's based in Windermere with a six foot pike.

They did start making a film of it but I don't think it was ever finished. My (extremely tenuous) claim to fame was that my ex-girlfriend's, ex-boyfriend's best mate (I did say it was tenuous) made the motorised model they were going to use for the film.

[NEWKID 27,088]

1 minute ago, Neal said:

There's a book called The Pike written by Cliff Twemlow. It's based in Windermere with a six foot pike.

They did start making a film of it but I don't think it was ever finished. My (extremely tenuous) claim to fame was that my ex-girlfriend's, ex-boyfriend's best mate (I did say it was tenuous) made the motorised model they were going to use for the film.

Now that is the very definition of tenuous!! Lol

[Neal 1,857]

3 minutes ago, NEWKID said:

Now that is the very definition of tenuous!! Lol

I've got a better one than that: my tutor's, tutor's, tutor's, tutor's, tutor at Art College in Falmouth was one of the suspects for Jack the Ripper.

Now, back to pike

[mackem 26,224]

11 minutes ago, NEWKID said:

Now that is the very definition of tenuous!! Lol

Six degrees of separation tenuous.

[paulus 26]

11 hours ago, WILF said:

I used to trim cork to the shape of a chum mixer for surface fishing, it’s all I used.

Had fish to 30lb off the top that way, used to do a lot of surface fishing because frankly, other people didn’t !

For some reason most carp anglers can’t seem to get their head round surface fishing.

30lb common off the top on a bit of cork.

I use to make imitation dog biscuits from Deer hair to use on the fly rod. Great fun catching Big carp on a fly set up, 

[kanny 20,433]

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[tatsblisters 9,435]

One of the best informative books I have read on pike and it's close relatives. With plenty of photos and descriptions. 

[paulus 26]

Back on the subject of Big Pike, I was a bailiff on a small syndicate clay pit. This place was mainly carp fishermen.  ( I use the term fishermen Loosely Lol ) They went to around the 30lb mark, This water in well over 50ft deep in places and often 17ft at the edge.  The pike in there are plentiful. There was only a couple of us that actually fished for them in the winter, My biggest was 24lb but i witnessed one over 27lb come out. 

In the summer when i was feeder fishing they did at times really become a nuisance. They would take Perch over a Pound. Bream to nearly 2lb, Some of these pike were far bigger than the 27 odd pounder that i saw caught, I once was playing a perch of about 3/4 of a pound. That was taken by a pike around 6lb and then that was taken buy a huge  pike of biblical proportions. One afternoon i had 7 strikes in 7 retrieves, yet the bloke sat less than 20ft away never had one. 

Some of these pike have been in there years and know the game, Even the jacks will swim into where you are fishing just waiting for you to return a fish to the water, They appear to understand what a wire trace is as well, You can sit there for hours with a dead bait on a wire trace and not get a touch, Change the trace to fluorocarbon and cast back into the same spot and the take will come within minutes.   

[kanny 20,433]

Ffs why can't I post what I want to post?  ..no obscenities  or links  but it won't post yet this does?