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Pike Fishing hots spots

Posted by admin on October 24th, 2009 Comments Off

1. Trout Resevoirs

Today I bought my first copy of Angling Times for about 8 years!  Coincidentally the front page featured article was on pike fishing in reservoirs  normally only open to trout fishing.  There seems to be awesome potential for record breaking predators in a venue that is unfished (for pike at least) and well stocked with a prime food source.

The standard of pike fishing in large open waters is understandably much better than in small slow flowing drains and ponds.  The abundance of high quality food and expansive area to roam ensures top quality fully muscled fighting fish.  I always found it upsetting when fishing some of my local ponds how unhealthy the fish stock always seemed.  For my sins, the first 10 years of my working life was spent as a fish farmer and I am only too well acquainted with the sort of fish health and quality resulting from poor waters.

Naturally the pike fishing tackle required for large reservoirs is at the top end of the scale in terms of strength and, well I suppose size.  A long rod of at least 12 foot and strong enough backbone to long cast at least 8 ounces or more will be needed, with line strength and reel capacity to match.  Fishing at 100 plus yards and aiming for 30 to 40 pound (and more) specimens means that you m ust be well prepared with your pike fishing tackle – it would be a sin leaving your end tackle in their mouths and many yards of line trailing behind these magnificent pike.

These trout waters are usually more prolific than other prime venues such as Loch Awe and other Scottish pike fishing hot spots.  This is as a result of the amount of food available which will always support a strong head of pike.  It is a shame that very often the trout fishery owners will cull large numbers of pike from their wayer in an effort to stop them eating the valuable trout which need to be stocked regularly.  The more forward thinking fishery manager will see that the pike will act as top of the food chain predators ensuring that the trout population is at its prime – the loss of some trout can be offset by opening the water to pike fishermen at certain times and in any case the loss is insignificant compared to that from cormorants and other fish eating birds!

I would see no harm in anglers being instructed to cull any injured or sick pike that they encounter.

Posted in Angler's diary, Pike fishing venues

Pike Fishing Tackle stored in the garage

Posted by admin on October 23rd, 2009 Comments Off

Welcome to my first post in Angler’s Diary.  I have set up this blog site to accompany my return to the angling world after a number of years away with my pike fishing tackle gathering dust in the garage.

Why?  Well Looking back to around 1999 I remember fishing regularly for pike, usually starting early on a Sunday morning at dawn and returning for a late brunch, thus leaving the rest of the day free with my wife.  I was fishing a confluence between the River Derwent near York and the Pocklington Canal, together with stretches of both of these waters and also the River Ouse in York.  Tales of 30 pound plus pike abounded.

I would set up two rods with popped up dead-baits with bite alarms then set back to enjoy the breaking dawn.  This was the best part of the day.

I was slowly building up my gear, added unhooking mats, monster sized landing nets etc.  It was about 2001 when I returned to the sport of scuba diving.  Something I had always liked but not always had the money.  I know a lot of people who enjoy both the sports of diving and angling – they do have water in common!  The trouble was that once I had started diving again there did not seem to be time to go fishing.  Also, for some reason I did not have quite the same urge to get my pike fishing tackle out of the garage.  At the time I was also trying to start a business on the side as a fishing tackle trader over the internet – this was not working very well either.

So the upshot was that my pike fishing tackle was left in the garage until a few weeks ago when I dug it out and started to dust it down!  Its funny how my interest in diving now seems to be waning and an urge to go pike fishing is returning.  I will need to replace and update some of my pike fishing tackle and intend publishing any interesting findings concerning value and quality of the equipment I will be looking at.

My rod and reel are actually intended as carp tackle and I thought that I might try this area of the sport as well.  As a relative newcomer to carp fishing I hope to research the various aspects of all sport fishing tackle and air the results over these posts.

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Pike Fishing Tackle – strength of fishing gear examined

Posted by admin on October 23rd, 2009 Comments Off

For anybody considering pike angling then it would be useful to read this post about buying tackle specifically for hunting specimen sized predators.  The tackle generally used by many experienced anglers who seek this elusive quarry can on occasion be somewhat heavy.  By that I mean that the tackle is very strong and could safely handle large pike up to say 30 or 40 pounds in weight.

That is very well, but it can take a bit of the pleasure from your angling to sit by the river or lake with a broomstick connected to rope!

On the other hand, it would be irresponsible to go fishing knowing that there is a chance of catching say at least a 20 pound fish equipped with a sporting one pound test curve spinning rod and five pound breaking strain line!

So selection of the strength of your pike fishing tackle can add tremendously to the enjoyment of your sport.  I tend to go to my local water where I have caught pike up to 21 pounds with two rods with 1.5 pound test curves.  These are relatively light items as pike fishing tackle goes but I have found will handle the fish comfortably while feeling responsive in the hand.  These rods are ideally loaded with 12 – 15 pound breaking strain (nylon – or equivalent diameter of braid or fluorocarbon) and will feel balanced.

The fashion is for a 12 foot long rod which I actually like unless I am stalking a river bank.  Then I will use my ancient fibreglass 9 foot ABU spinning rod that can cast a few ounces of dead-bait happily.

The reel is less critical in my opinion – I use Shimano Bait Runners that will take around 200 metres of line.  This is more than enough.  A few years ago when I started specimen hunting for pike I bought one of these bait runners and paired it with an old Mitchell Match with automatic bail arm.  I used a deep spool of course – you could probably only fit 10 metres of suitably heavy line on the special match spool!  I caught many good pike, again up to 20 pound in weight, with this make shift partnership – even though it is definately not designed for the job!

The biggest factor in choosing gear – once you have read all the brochures about length, test curve, capacity of spool etc – is to simply get your preferred combination in your hand.  Do you like them?  As a committed tackle tart I must be in love with the gear.  Remember what fishing is about – as long as the pike fishing tackle is up to the job the important thing is your satisfaction.

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