1978 - 28lb to Steve Green. The first 20lb PIke I ever saw!

Arrived at the drain one day and saw a young guy struggling with a big pike he had just caught on a freelined sprat.

Helped him handle it and took some pictures. Primative camera with no flash. Photo was on negative film.

Steve Green lived locally and was in the Royal Engineers. What happened to him I wonder?

The fish proved to be the biggest in the water and was reputed to have reached 30lb. I caught it at 28-4 a few weeks later in February 1979.