02 May 2021 Arrived early. The mist was just clearing from the water. It didn’t take long to shift. Ledgering with 3 rods on sardines. After 15 minutes I got a run, had it on for 5 seconds or so before it slipped the hook. Stayed for another hour or so but no more interest. Moved right across the bay to the other side but nothing. Moved again but still no runs. Decided on a last move before I packed up and bingo... nailed this nice 7 lb pike. Got another run but it dropped the bait and that was that. Time to go home to watch the football.
09 May 2021 First cast was at 6am, so up nice and early. The usual three rods out all on sardines. Fished for 4 hours and not a touch. Still it was a lovely morning and quite pleasant just passing the hours away waiting for runs that never came
Discovered that I must have left my fish Gripper behind the last time I came. Pity it was a handy little tool for lifting pike out of the water and it had an integrated scale as well...that's life...just need to fork out and buy another
13 May 2021 Fished this evening for 2 hours using sardines, had 3 runs but only connected with one but lost it in the weeds. Still quite pleased with the action tonight
Good session this morning with 7 runs hooked 4 lost one and landed 3. The biggest was my PB at just over 10 lbs; one and 7lb and a small jackpike around 2.5 lbs. All caught on sardines
Here my PB
Caught this small jackpike next
Then another good pike at 7 lbs to finish the session.
19 May 2021 Thought I'd try an evening session for a couple of hours for a change. Arrived around 7pm and caught a nice 7 lb pike first cast on the first rod out...and here's a picture of the pike which had nice markings;
Here's a video link as well;
I fished on for a couple of hours but no more runs...funny old sport is fishing
23 May 2021 Early morning session with 3 rods out all on the float and all using sardines. It was a nice morning although quite cool at 5C. I had 7 runs but only managed to land one of 9lbs. Fought well and quickly returned safely.
Tried a bit of everything today. Started with 3 rods out for pike using mackerel strips. Had two runs and managed to land both. The first one was a 3.5 lb jackpike and the second was an even smaller jackpike at 2.5 lbs. There was quite a lot of pike activity in the lily beds and saw a few frogs in the margins so I changed one of the rods to a spinning set up and tried a floating frog 🐸 but nothing. Changed to mepp but again nothing. Then tried fly fishing for roach but again nothing. Fished on for pike for a bit longer before packing up and headed home.
03 June 2021 When I arrived for an evening session there was a member fishing for roach and perch. He left shortly after I arrived. He had 51 small perch and roach in his keepnet so there is plenty of bait fish to keep the pike occupied. I only had mackerel strips with me so that was the bait for this session. I had 6 runs this evening, hooked 3 and landed 2 so quite pleased with the outcome. The biggest pike weighed in at 5.5 lbs and the other a jackpike of 3.5 lbs.
06 June 2021 The first rod went out at 06:30 this morning. As I was setting up my second rod my float moved and I was into a run. My thoughts were that this could be a great session with a run on my first cast. I connected with the fish but it was only a small jackpike of around 2lbs I estimated as it slipped the hook before I could land it. This was the only action I had in a four hour session, so overall a disappointing day although the weather was nice. I did manage a video of the only action of the day;
13 June 2021 Fished for a couple of hours in the evening down at the dam end. Three rods out all on sardines. Not a touch, still it was a nice evening to be out.
20 June 2021 Back down the shallow end with three rods out all on sardines...not a touch...after 2 hours decided to pack up and try for perch using a soft plastic lure and managed to catch a small perch.
27 June 2021 Early morning session today with 3 rods out all on sardines. I had 4 runs this morning but alas missed every one. Just one of those days 😢