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Category: Pike

Boxing day Pike, or not!

27 December, 2005 by Alistair

So it was at around 10pm on Christmas night when I got a text message from an enthusiastic fisher Charlie. – Want to go fishing tomorrow? I replied – Why the hell not! I had read something somewhere about going Pike fishing on Boxing Day being traditional so we decided to go to the local…

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I know a great place for Pike!!!

18 October, 2005 by Alistair

Ah yes, that was what I said…..a deep river…I have caught Pike there in the past…hell Claire caught Pike their in the past…..except now we will be armed and dangerous!! Where did it all go wrong? We had wire traces, giant plugs that rattled (mine cost £1.50 but Alex bought Rapalas at 10 quid each)…

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Pike action on the Forth n Clyde!!

12 October, 2005 by Alistair

So I headed down to the canal for a bit of Pike action. No I was not using a fly rod (for my sins) I was using a nice spinning rod with a big “fuck off” plug that dived and darted and generally did impressions of a dying fish. It was all very exiting! A…

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