Ravensthorpe Reservoir is well known for its trout fishing but Patric Kyte proved it’s also a pike haven with the capture of this 33lb 4oz monster. Predator enthusiast, Patric fished the Northamptonshire venue with his son and already boated a 6lb pike on a deadbait early on in the session…. Read more
Category: Pike
32lb 8oz Chew Pike Ends 17 Year Wait!
After years watching others catch the fish of their dreams, it was finally Terry Theobald’s turn earlier this week. “I have fished Chew every year since day 2 of the first pike trials and I was beginning to think it would never happen… Thankfully it did!” Theo caught his prized specimen… Read more
34lb 10oz Brick Pit Pike
Ron Russell recently landed a huge predator in the form of this 34lb 10oz pike. After a fruitless 24-hour session targeting carp on Lincolnshire’s Dorrington Brick Pit, Ron switched his attention to pike and legered a half a herring into an area of dead lily pads. Over this, he introduced… Read more
32lb 8oz Gravel Pit Pike
A 32lb 8oz pike tops another incredible week for predator fishing. Keith Rogers was the first to get in on the action when he targeted a small carp water in the Colne Valley with lures. After already taking six jack pike whilst roving the lake, Keith had no idea a… Read more
River Trent Pike Tips Scales To 32lb 11oz
As rivers fine down from flooding anglers across the country have cashed in on ‘perfect conditions’ landing monsters of several species including a pike of 32lb 11oz. It provided the only run of a session on the River Trent when Worksop’s Ian Wilson cast out a herring hookbait. He’s been… Read more
Martin Bowler’s Top Tips #25 – Travel Light
River pike fishing is all about mobility and I will rarely stay in a swim for more than 20-minutes. With this in mind, I travel light with a small bag, a net, a few deadbaits and only one rod, the 10ft E-Sox Piker. More often than not, I will float… Read more