23/12/06 - Pit Piking with Ma

I decided that today was going to be spent Piking on my Syndicate water with mate Mark Baker. I hadn't seen Ma in a while and fancied the social as well as the Piking. Ma had also yet to catch a Pike form the water, so this needed to be sorted out. On arrival the level of the water was well up from its Summer levels and looked a totally different water. We both decided to fish a nice deep bay at one end of the Pit, and from here proceeded to cast ledgered deads to some drop-offs surrounding the small fish shoals.

The action turned out to be fast and furious and by lunch time we had caught around six Pike each, although none were of any size. All fish fell to a mixture of deads, with Smelt being the number one fish catcher. Hopefully we'll get  back down there again soon and catch some of the bigger fish that I know must inhabit the place!

         

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