Marraskuu End

November has been a real slog, it seems to be the same for me every year - but the last cast of the day into a rapidly rising Wye made it all worth while. After a few follows and a few half-hearted nips - a big pike finally slammed my Bulldog lure.

Made a proper fight of it in the fast water before I slipped the net under something I've been chasing for 40+ years - a lure caught Wye twenty! Scales settled on 22lb 2oz - f**king brilliant! Camera wouldn't play, but phone saved the day. Over-da-moon!!!!!

Marraskuu Pest

After a decent start to the pike campaign this season - 11 fish in October - I had hoped to carry that momentum into November. But it's not happened; two days piking for only one run - a pike that looked like it might scrape past the magic number before it shook the hook under the rod tip. And now floods! Just hoping to bank a pike this month...

Who Is Tilly?

As a break from blanking for pike I hit the Small River for a couple of afternoons. Bit tricky in November - but was in London anyway.


And eleven barbel found the net - no monsters but great to get something pulling on the other end! Right, back to the pike...