Any old school pike fishermen on here?

[oldypigeonpopper]

1 minute ago, Bobba said:

Unless you’ve deep pockets you may care to choose somewhere different to Chew Valley Lake. 2021 pike season = £55.00 per session bank fishing and £120.00 per boat (2 people) !!

Hello, more expensive that trout fishing, check out Farmoor prices ? , Much prefer the Thames here, free fishing 👍

[Bobba]

47 minutes ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

 Much prefer the Thames here, free fishing 👍

Hi, same here. For us it’s the river Avon. 👍

[ph5172]

As a youngster I sacked off the trebles and started to use a single carp hook. 
never had any issues with losses and much easier to unhook with cold hands. 
 

anyone else do this ? 
 

Used to get out with my childhood telescopic rod a couple of spinners, a big float  and whatever fish was on offer on the counter. 

[Houseplant]

Good luck to all the pike fishermen for the coming "season". I switched over to single circles towards the end of my pike fishing career, but only fished with small baits. 

[Fisheruk]

On 20/08/2021 at 16:21, snow white said:

I remember now what we did hole straight though table tennis ball then put a straw in hole and use the balsa glue that we had let after making model airplane round straw and sealed the hole in ball to make it water proof 

That’s the way I made my own floats in the 50’s, but I used a piece of split cane as the float stick. Used them for eal bobbing at the end of a sewer pipe.

[oldypigeonpopper]

20 hours ago, ph5172 said:

As a youngster I sacked off the trebles and started to use a single carp hook. 
never had any issues with losses and much easier to unhook with cold hands. 
 

anyone else do this ? 
 

Used to get out with my childhood telescopic rod a couple of spinners, a big float  and whatever fish was on offer on the counter. 

Hello, I only use a single hook de barbed, stainless sea hook , 

[Mr. Merkel]

Yes I also have been using 3/0 circle hooks for some time for pike.

 

[oldypigeonpopper]

22 hours ago, Mr. Merkel said:

Yes I also have been using 3/0 circle hooks for some time for pike.

 

Hello, that interesting , never heard of those and by all accounts a better hook for pike ? You can get semi circle to ? So what make do you recommend, ?? I buy my traces in packs of 25, so 25 hooks should be ideal this winter, 

[Mr. Merkel]

I use Fox wacky worm hooks 3/0, not cheap but good quality strong & razor sharp, also testing Cox & Rawle crab hooks these are not circle but also hook nicely mostly in the scissors.

 

[Mr. Merkel]

1 hour ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

Hello, that interesting , never heard of those and by all accounts a better hook for pike ? You can get semi circle to ? So what make do you recommend, ?? I buy my traces in packs of 25, so 25 hooks should be ideal this winter, 

Here is a pic, of the hook package hope it helps.

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, my son has booked 2 tickets for pike fly fishing on the river Kennet, December 18th , any views on what pike fly ??

[dessyb]

use the widgets out of your beer cans for a pilot float ALSO THE BALL OF DEODRANT BOTTLESMAKE GOOD FLOATS

Edited October 30, 2021 by dessyb

[oldypigeonpopper]

On 30/09/2021 at 22:41, oldypigeonpopper said:

Hello, October 1st here so time for some pike fishing , 👍

Hello, that's a rip off Bobba 🤔

Edited December 3, 2021 by oldypigeonpopper

[oldypigeonpopper]

On 29/10/2021 at 10:07, oldypigeonpopper said:

Hello, my son has booked 2 tickets for pike fly fishing on the river Kennet, December 18th , any views on what pike fly ??

Hello, was a good day despite missing a few pike, not use to a number 9 line and whopping pike flies, more into 4/5 double taper river fishing

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, yesterday was a few hours piking, till the heavens opened with a deluge of rain, 1 pike no bigger than the bright orange  fishy type lure 🤔😁

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, not many days left of the season to catch that monster pike in the rivers/canals of Uk