Pike fishing the River Soar

Its time for some pike fishing, the first session of the year. I went with a friend of mine Colin for a walk along the River Soar. It was not long until the rods were out in some likely places but nothing was happening. I said to Colin come on lets get up stream to the weir and have a go. We made the ten minute walk to the weir island where we both settled in the same peg. I was fishing a dead Roach on the bottom using a light running rig set up, Colin was using a pike float letting the bait drift around in the strong current. It didnt take long for the first taker, my rod tip started to twitch before line was being stripped off the reel.

The runner was set very slack so what ever picked the bait could run with without feeling the resistance. It was a great little battle in the strong current, it was only a small but welcome as first fish. Things died in this spot after this take so we both moved down stream to one of the other hot pegs. This turned out to be a right hot peg that day no more then 6 takes between us in a couple of hours.

 I managed one more and lost two while Colin banked two and lost one. It was a great day out on the bank with some fish caught and great laugh had with good company, Till next time......