Coventry’s famous specimen angler Phil Smith playing a big Sturgeon on one of the new E-Sox Piker Bait 12ft Rods.

Phil has a set of the new rods for his Winter Pike campaign, but decided to put them through their paces with Sturgeon at a midlands stillwater.

Three huge fish of 42lb, 24lb 8oz and 24lb 1oz certainly put a bend in the rods!

For full details on the E-Sox Piker Bait 12ft Rod (which retails at £129.00), click here.