Snow, Ice and now the Flood

Not much fishing for me lately due to the bad weather. Just the odd hour here and there with not much to show for it. All my local stillwaters were still frozen at the weekend and The Trent is very high and fast. Hope things settle down and get back to normal soon!

That's Better!

The fishing has been difficult lately with just a few odd Jacks between the blank sessions so I was pleased today when this beauty gave me the run-around in the fast current of The Trent.


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A Nice Change

After having a few blank sessions lately on my usual fishing areas, I decided to have a change and try somewhere different today, so I fished a stretch of The Trent I'd not fished before. The fishing was hard because of the very low, clear water and the gusty wind but I stuck it out and was pleased to end the morning with this beauty!
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Monday Morning Pike

Back on The Trent this morning for a quick couple of hours and had this lovely fat Pike


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Trent Chat

I did more socialising than fishing today. It seemed that every passer by, dog walker and jogger wanted to stop for a chat about the pollution coming down The Trent, although I did have a few nice fish between chats, two small Pike and a chunky Perch.


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Trent Beauty!

I had another few hours back on The Trent again today and after losing a small fish; I had a good hard scrap from this beautifully marked Pike in perfect condition.


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A Pair of Trent Stripys

I was back on The Trent again for another quick session today and was pleased to end the morning with this great pair of chunky perch!




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Trent Tail Walker

I had a couple of hours this morning on The Trent with my lure rod. Pike fishing conditions were terrible, bright sunshine with very low clear water meant the fishing was going to be a struggle, but I persevered with the lures and was eventually rewarded with this lively tail walking pike.
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Two Trent Doubles

Today I had the afternoon pike fishing on The Trent which had quite a good flow on. After a couple of hours without any action I was beginning to think it was going to be another blank session, been weeks since I last caught a pike, then suddenly I had a fish on which was unstoppable. It tore line off the reel and ran out into the fast water. When I eventually got it near the net it went crazy again trying to get in the marginal snags. I was relieved when it finally rolled into the landing net. My first pike in weeks and it was a nice fat beauty in perfect condition!

The second pike I'm sure didn't know it was hooked; not really doing much until it got near the net then it went mad. Another perfect fish.

I also managed a Jack, like busses, no pike for weeks, and then 3 in an afternoon!




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Trent Perch

I had a few hours this evening on The Trent with my lure rod and was surprised to see the river looking good despite all the recent rain that's gone into it. After a quiet start my lure eventually hit into something but it didn't feel quite right. It turned out to be a pike of around 8lb but it was foul hooked in the tail! That was the only action from the pike for the evening but the perch were on the attack and I ended the evening with three of them, topped off by this beauty!

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Bestwood Ponds

Today, I had the afternoon at Notts Anglers Bestwood Ponds Complex and had this beauty pulling the scales around past 17lb. Lovely :-)


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