We managed to get just one winter session on the River Severn and it was New Years Day 2011.
The river was fining down after the meltwater from 2010's big freeze and conditions looked good although things were a bit slow going.
After an hour or so a decent fish grabbed Martin's roach deadbait just feet from the bank as he was retrieving it to re-cast. After a spirited tussle the fish came to the net and came in just shy of the 13lb mark.
Shortly after this Martin went off to investigate another swim so I was left in charge of the rods, and it was his legered sandeel that was taken with a confident run and another great fighting river pike of around 8lbs.
3 comments:
Thats a couple of great Pike, One each is a good result,
,,,Paddy,,,
Beautiful winter fish! My Severn River is under 18" of ice.
I love to catch big pike. I use both live bait a lures. Twister tails are my favorite lure for them, and sucker
minnows my favorite live bait. Really like your blog.
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