Pike oh yes!!!!!!

[Glenn B]

Hopefully getting our first shot at some pike this weekend now that the trout season is coming to an end we have our fingers crossed for a few biggies...

[Dowser]

Hopefully getting our first shot at some pike this weekend now that the trout season is coming to an end we have our fingers crossed for a few biggies...

This is the first Pike I have ever caught:



and I plucked it out of here around about June 2013 :



There's a "No Way" story to go along with this catch.  I had a very limited amount of gear/tackle with me because it was a last minute decision to go fishing.  On my way home from work the sun was shining and the long evenings had arrived so I stopped off at the house, grab my tackle box (which is mostly sea fishing gear), my rod, a frozen mackerel from the freezer and my one and only wire pike trace that I'd picked up the week before in anticipation of this day.

When I got to the lake I got my rod all set up and attached a mackerel tail to the wire trace which consisted of two triple hooks.  On my first cast a flippin' whopper grabbed the bait within seconds of it hitting the water and I couldn't believe my luck but, it was short lived!!! 5 seconds later something happened, my line went slack and I lost my trace 

After a few minutes of cursing I settled myself and started thinking like Bear Grylls... What could I use instead of the wire trace?  I hoked about in my tackle box and found a sea lure with a triple hook hanging at the tail end and decided to stick a bit of mackerel on that and see what happens.  Three casts later I struck lucky again.  Not really knowing what to do, with it being my first time pike fishing, I let the fish play about a bit before I started reeling it in.  About a minute into the reeling my line went slack again and another outburst of cursing followed.  I began winding in my line but there was still a bit of tension so I thought at least I still have my lure this time.  When I got the line fully wound in I couldn't believe what I saw... The mackerel bait was gone from my sea lure but in it's place was my original pike trace just hanging there completely intact and undamaged 

Thinking this as got to be a sign from above I reconnected the Pike Trace, added new bait, and started from scratch.

This time everything went according to plan... I cast out my line, sat back and watched my float for movement and sure enough I struck it lucky again    I had hooked what felt to me like a complete whopper, considering 99% of the fish I have caught in the past are Mackerel, and the fight began.  I played with it a bit, wound it in a bit, let it out a bit... well you know how it goes, until I eventually got it landed.

First thing I noticed was the size of the flippin' teeth on the thing.  Fortunately I had the sense to buy a pair of pike forceps along with my pike trace and the trace came out of Mr Pike easily enough.  A quick photo shoot with Mr Pike took place and within a minute or two he was off swimming again until the next time I decided to try my luck at pike fishing.

It was a great experience and I'm not quite sure why I have been back yet but reminiscing here with my fishy tail has given me a notion and I might take the kids pike fishing this weekend.

Good Luck this weekend yourself Glenn and I hope you get a few Biggies and a story to tell.  It's the most exciting fish I have ever caught!

[Mourneman]

one i got from the Quolie -

199191_5591404859_2126_n by paul surginor, on Flickr

[Eamonn]

Mourneman you boss 

[LandyLiam]

Thats a biggun    maybe it caught John 

[whoRya]

When you push the button on the side of it does it sing a song

[Glenn B]

No pike today they are a bit hard to hook when your a taxi driver for your kids all day