Northern Pike

The freshwater shark or croc as a lot of people like to call the pike, is one of my favorite fish to catch, its a streamlined stealthy predator with a big appetite, the British record currently stands at 46lb 13oz which was caught by R Lewis in Llandegfedd, Wales, in 1992. there has been some close calls with this record the most recent was on the 29th of March 2012 by Andy O'Connor at exactly 46lb caught at a fishery near Scarborough

This pike has been the largest one caught in a long while and hopefully there are bigger ones out there maybe the one in the picture above may end up being the record in a few years.


Pike can be landed either using plugs spinners and shads or dead/live baiting. most pike prefer weedbeds or sunken snags to lie in wait for their next meal, but do occasionally move to bask near the surface, i love stalking the reeds and weed beds looking for pike lying in wait, i could spend hours hunting for pike as they are a beautiful sleek predator and give a good fight,
this is one of my catches 

yes its not huge but at 6lb its a decent fish for a canal, my local canal has plenty of jack pike and a few decent sized pike but i've yet to find a decent double figured pike in that canal
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