maggot
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TIME FOR A FEW PIKE I THINKAfter having a good season last year fishing the wye for barbel ive decided to have a go for the pike this year anybody been fishing around hereford area lately
 wouldnt mind seing a few pickies of this lovely river as i havent been near it for months.cant wait to have a go  hopefully ill b able to put a few pics off my own up on the site who knows might even be a fish on one of them lol 
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fish
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lucky sod i havent piked for about a year i am hoping to get out some time soon though!
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maggot
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cant wait myself hoping for this rain to drop off a bit before going tho. Had a big old girl grab a 4lb plus barbel as i was playing it think ill b heading back to that area for a little go
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scorpion
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Ive never been pike fishing, wouldnt mind doing it on the fly, looks great sport.
billy
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maggot
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i bet its hard work punching one of those big old pike flies out
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Adam
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You ain't going to do it with a 3wt that's for sure.
A Dutch fella sent me one of his home made pike flies a few years ago - I couldn't cast that on a 9wt, went out lovely on a mates 15' salmon rod though. Mind you - it was about 8 inches long!
Pike bunnies and big bunny leeches will do the trick and they're castable (just) on heavy reservoir gear provided you're not trying for the horizon.
Had a few jacks out of the Thames on big montanas in my yoof... wasn't keen on taking those home at the time, we were only just downstream of Harwell!
What's your best method for pike then Maggot?
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maggot
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good old simple float fishing either fishing a half cocked waggler on stillwaters or trotting a pike bob down little glides on a river if i fancy a sit down and a cuppa i might tie a line off my top treble with a lead atached to fish the bait static .dont mind chucking a few lures at them too.so what do they feel like when they ***** into a fly wouldnt mind a go at that ive had carp on a fly rod but its not the same i suppose as theyre just sucking floaters and i dont think my old 6 to 7 weight stradic would be much cop for chucking them bunnies out. i let the old man use it one day and watched (fell over laughing  )a big lead head ***** him in the back of the ear i had to compose myself and go and rip it out lol sort of put me off tying a bigun on lol
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Adam
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For rivers use either a lightweight but bulky or floating fly on a short leader and a sinking line - cast down and across, put a big upstream mend in and let the belly of the line sink - then rip it back across the current. The fly doesn't need to be heavy that way. Use an intermediate line if you're on a stillwater unless you can tie weedguards in.
Biggest pike I've had on the fly was only about 7 or 8lb - so nothing enormous. Keep your fingers out of the loops of line once it realises it's hooked - those first few runs are like hooking the back of a passing motorbike! The water I've caught mine in was deep, by the time you've got them up to the surface on fly gear they're pretty much spent. If you can find any shallower water with a good head of pike then you're in for a treat, with nowhere to go but along or up it would be like hooking a freshwater marlin I reckon!
I've heard of blokes using surface/wake/popper flies - never tried them myself, never had any luck with floating plugs either so that's probably why. Supposed to be spectacular when they take though.
Deadbaits at night is how I've caught most of my pike - beats the crap out of carp fishing :D
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maggot
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have you ever caught any chub on them big bushy flys.
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Adam
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Not on pike flies - had a few out of the Stour in Canterbury city centre on nymphs and dries.
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maggot
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nice so what other coarse fish have you had on the fly
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Adam
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Just perch, rudd and carp. Had a lot of grayling out of the kennet, which technically are coarse fish, but since they're a salmonid more people call them game fish these days.
What I really want to c r a c k is mackeral on the fly, but since we've moved I've not had much time out for fishing - once my back is fixed we'll see, three more weeks before physio starts, it's doing my crunch!
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maggot
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sounds good mate hope your back fixes up wouldnt mind seeing a bit of that strong buggers them macks
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Adam
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Yeah - I don't even know where to start up here, used to have a few places I knew of where I could reach them from the shore with a fly rod down South. Never did catch one on the fly, just using my carp and pike gear using spoons and tobys.
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maggot
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kayak fishing seems to be the new big thing have you seen any of that on you tube looks good you could reach them 4 sure then
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scorpion
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| maggot wrote: | | kayak fishing seems to be the new big thing have you seen any of that on you tube looks good you could reach them 4 sure then |
Ive done it maggot for bass just outside a power station that lets out warm water, the place is full with bass and mullet and also CHINKYS now because there catching them to sell in there takaways. They taking everything out big and small.
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maggot
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sounds good exept for them people id try a bass bullet at them or sting them with a caty wen they go to chuck a tiddler in the bag just float of smiling in your kayak lol . they deserve it if there taking all the small breeders from your spot sounds like a top mark to fish too would a big bass tow u about then
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fish
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so where is this powerstation?
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