Silly little pike!

[Houseplant]

Managed a couple of hours the other day on the local river. Very quiet on maggot/waggler, just one small perch which I used as livebait. Within seconds of putting it in the water, I had a run, wound down and nothing. The same thing happened a few more times. It was starting to get silly, so I gave the culprit a little longer to find the hook. Result was a tiny jack hanging on to the bait. Three times I got him to the net and each time he let go. After about an hour of constant harrassment, I finally hooked all half a pound of him. A micro pike, but strangely satisfying to see him on the bank after all the trouble he caused. I hope he has learnt a few lessons

[Brian Carragher]

Smallest pike I ever hooked was a 35 gramme fish that took a double maggot when out silver fishing

 

Won me a trophy from our local PAC region for smallest fish of the season (mickey take) and I nearly had to look out our local drug dealer to weigh it but as it died I weighed it on kitchen scales

 

In old money it weighed about 1.25 ounces

[old novice - jeff]

a month or two back i had the same jack three times while float fishing a worm on light tackle, third time i did get it in the net, it was about 18 inch long,

[Snatcher]

Managed a couple of hours the other day on the local river. Very quiet on maggot/waggler, just one small perch which I used as livebait. Within seconds of putting it in the water, I had a run, wound down and nothing. The same thing happened a few more times. It was starting to get silly, so I gave the culprit a little longer to find the hook. Result was a tiny jack hanging on to the bait. Three times I got him to the net and each time he let go. After about an hour of constant harrassment, I finally hooked all half a pound of him. A micro pike, but strangely satisfying to see him on the bank after all the trouble he caused. I hope he has learnt a few lessons

 

Nice story mate. These things stick in your mind. Hooked my smallest whilst fly fishing. It was about 8" or 9" long and took an orange dog knobbler

[noodle996]

my smallest to date took a carp live bait when i was after cats in france

 

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