I’ve been out after perch every few days and had loads of pike to lures but the perch seem to have gone off the feed with the coloured water and temperature drop. Leaves are a pain in the arse too on the canals and rivers.
last night I had a couple of hours on a reservoir I fish occasionally because it was a dark, windy day and I got a proper pike lure rod out for the first time in ages to try to capitalise on this pike autumn feeding spree. This res is hardly fished because it’s a bastard of a walk but I once witnessed a 25lber caught by a noddy (who dropped it). Anyway, I hiked down the north face of the Eiger to get there, had two casts with a big rubber lure. Third cast and the rod snapped, an Abu Garcia one about a year or so old which was cheap and now I know why.
A hike back up the north face of the Eiger to get my perch rod which was in the car, a hike back down and there I am, sweating my bollocks off, forced into perch fishing. Time was running out and the light was going so I left the light perch tackle on, flouro trace and small jig. I walked around trying a couple of little lures and then at the last available spot on the (out of bounds) dam wall I hooked and landed a Jack about 4lb. It started to rain. I had another couple off casts and there was a bang, and something took off like a fucking F1 submarine, nearly yanked the rod out of my hands and then went slack. A massive pike had bitten through the flouro.
I shut the gate after the horse had bolted by putting on a trace like I should have at the beginning, and a bigger lure. But now it was nearly dark, the rain became torrential and I ripped the arse out of my jeans climbing back over the dam wall. I climbed back up the mountain seeing this as an opportunity missed.
Going to get my pike head on now for a while before the first frosts slow it down.