🇬🇧 Jack Pike by John Needham
Jack Pike
views: 323 | Mar 26, 2023

It's the closed season in the UK now so no river fishing allowed for coarse fish so I took a stroll down the local canal where it is allowed. Just fishing light on 8lb braid and 6lb leader, 1/8th jig head and a Berkley curl tail I brought back from Oz with me. It was cold and blowing and I'd come straight from work so was in my shorts which wasn't ideal. Just did a walk from one lock to the next and the only bite I had was this hungry Jack Pike. He took 4 goes at it but finally got himself hooked. My first ever Pike so a new species and a PB. Started chucking it down so hurried back tio the car and home for a cuppa tea and a warm. Happy days.

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1 year ago by Mark Totzke
Nice fish John. Is it your first since you're back in the UK? It has probably never seen a Berkley curly tail softbait before 😄 I don't think they sell them in the UK.
1 year ago by John Needham
It's my first Pike but I did catch a brown trout a couple of weeks ago. I bought a load of the Berkley Gulp lures on offer at Anaconda then a week later found out we were going home so I brought them all back. Got to say I prefer fishing on the warm Sunshine Coast to a freezing canal in Chesterfield.
1 year ago by Mark Totzke
haha, yeah I bet. Well, at least you're heading into summer now :) Just saw your brown trout photo. I didn't think there were trout in this area, that's awesome. I'm headed to Germany for a few months this summer. Probably gonna take a few packs of Gulp and Z-mans. From memory, I think it's hard to buy them in Europe.
1 year ago by John Needham
Yeah I've not seen any of their stuff here at all. There's quite a few trout rivers around me but you have to pay local angling clubs to fish them on a day ticket or sometimes you have to become a member £££. Bet there's some good Zander fishing in Germany. Not many places in the UK have those. Classed as an invasive species I think.
1 year ago by Mark Totzke
Yeah hoping to target a few Zander in good old Germany. Best eating fish you can get over there. But not easy to catch. Paying all these fees for angling in Europe is really annoying and expensive. It's so much easier to fish in Australia and New Zelaand.
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