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[Allrounder]

Due to the changeable weather over the weekend I decided to take a boat at Chew last Tuesday in the hope that the fresher conditions might have stirred the fish up a bit. The plan was to pike fish in the morning and then go for the trout in the evening.

The water clarity wasn't too bad at about 5 feet or so although there was a green tinge but I quite like that, rather than tap water clear when I am piking. Surface temperature was 70 degrees but that rose to 72 by mid afternoon. I tried my usual flies for the first couple of hours but after they got no attention I wondered it they were too big for the conditions so I tried a smaller fly instead. Luckily a pike agreed with my decision and on only my second cast everything locked up just after I started my retrieve.

The fish put up a dogged 'tug of war' type of fight rather than spectacular 'around the boat' fight and I thought it was a mid double until I saw her and then I realised it was a 20 plus fish!



After netting her I left her over the side in my net to recover while I got things ready for the unhooking and weighing and that's when she woke up, churning the water to foam and almost pulling my net over the side. Fortunately she spat the hook out herself so I weighed her in the sladle (28 -15) and subtracted the sladle (4-5) which left me with a new PB of 24 -10! . I held her in the water by the tail to help her recover but she slipped my grip before she was really ready but after a few seconds she powered off down into the depths so no harm done.



I must admit she left me shaking after that and I had to have a cup of tea to steady my nerves before I started again and it was then that I realised that my camera had been left on the wrong setting and my pics hadn't come out. Fortunately I have clips of her being landed and released on my action camera but sadly the still frames above I extracted from the clip aren't that great.

After that I had to wait 2 hours for my next two hits which came about 20 minutes apart. These were only small Jacks but they were very game, leaping out of the water on numerous occasions.

I carried on until 5pm but by then I was completely knackered so I came int to change to my trout gear at 5pm. That proved to be a waste of time and I didn't have a pull, but it is easier chucking #5 weight than a #10 weight! However by 7.30 I had had enough of that too so I came off early.

Hopefully this hot spell will pass soon.

Alan
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[tenet]

Well done on the PB Al. I expect Tony will be equally as pleased as you

edit: Have you tried Postimage - I use them all the time https://postimages.org/

[Allrounder]

Thanks Doug

I prefer to use the forums own uploader to 3rd party uploaders especially after the recent issue with one withdrawing their free service.

Paul has identified an issue with posting pics and is on the case.

Alan
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[lakefisher]

Great report on a brilliant catch of your new PB Alan - Absolutely delighted for you
Just a shame I couldn't be there to share your excitement - but there's always another day

Found out why I couldn't access the forum when it first came alive again - seems the E.E. DNS lookup server has been having problems and wouldn't direct my Firefox browser to the correct address.

Congrats on your new PB ........ Tony
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