wellyphant 19 Posted August 4, 2015 Every year, I organise a kids camping trip with friends from a local Mountainbiking club and this year, like last year, we stayed at Coniston hall campsite. This is a great site as there is loads to do in the area but best of all, It's right by the lake so I can sneak off for some early morning Pike fishing before the kids wake up. As the weather wasn't very good for the first couple of days, I didn't go out until the third morning, the water was calm and the sun was out so decided to set off from the shore near the campsite and paddled to the shallower water at the northern end of the lake. I'd been trolling a Savage gear 3D line thru trout and not had much action so decided to stop to take a selfie. Once I'd done this I thought I'd reel in the lure just to check that I hadn't picked up any weed and it was hit almost immediately by what felt like a decent sized Pike. I'd been trolling the lure about 40 yards behind the boat so it took me a little while to get the fish to the boat and this is when it started fighting. Luckily, my camera was still at hand to catch the action. It took me under the boat with a couple of times with some spectacular lunges before finally coming to the net. Once landed, I managed to get one more snap of this stunning fish which I estimated to be around 13lb before returning it Happy with the catch I returned to family duties and returned a couple of mornings later, no action that morning but the peace and tranquility in the early hours more that made up for the blank. 5 http://www.flickr.com/photos/57720636@N03/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vagabond 979 Posted August 15, 2015 Splendid action shots. Have fond memories of Coniston - spent a lot of time and effort there to get my English charr. 1 RNLI Governor World species 471 : UK species 105 : English species 95 . Certhia's world species - 215 Eclectic "husband and wife combined" world species 501 "Nothing matters very much, few things matter at all" - Plato ...only things like fresh bait and cold beer... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JV44 194 Posted August 22, 2015 Wellyphant great write up and pics it's what is missing on the forum,I am as guilty as anyone will make more of an effort 1 We are not putting it back it is a lump now put that curry down and go and get the scales have I told you abouit the cruise control on my Volvo ,,,,,,,bla bla bla Barder rod has it come yet?? and don`t even start me on Chris Lythe Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SeaDooDavid 0 Posted August 7, 2016 brings back memories! had some very nice pike there when I lived in cumbria! I live in SW France now and am considering another kayak to fish the lakes here full of very large Sander!! Nice pics mate!..................Dave Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AddictedToScopex 46 Posted August 10, 2016 Something I have wanted to do myself in the lakes but still haven't managed to get round to it. Great pics. For any web design needs check out http://www.chiptenwebsites.co.uk Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
