This time it was caught 200 yards away on the entrance to a side drain. The pike was swimming into the cut out of the main flow. Cold weather and snow had meant the water had flooded and was being pumped. Roach and bream were at that time shoaled up in the cut.
It took a small joey whole mackeral. A little bit of history!
I had a set of two identical rods and Abu Cardinal 66x reels. My gear consisted of mono 15lb Maxima line, an SS6 fibreglass rod, no unhooking mat etc. Plus no way of taking photos easily! Lion D'Or size 6 treble hooks on 30lb Marlinsteel tracewire.
Bait was freelined below the rod tip. The only run of the day from memory. No buzzers then, just had home made drop-off bobbins. A good start to my piking career when I was 19 years old I think.
My bible was the Ray Webb and Barry Rickards "Fishing for Big Pike" book. Though I never found a permanent "hotspot" as they used to describe the Fenland ones.
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