Epic bike and pike...

Well the plan was to get up early (ish) and cycle 12 or so miles to the end of the Gloucester canal, and then lure fish my way back with my friend Ben until it got dark... It didn't really go to plan. For one reason or another, leaving early (ish) turned into leaving at half 12! Then during the hour long journey straight into a gale force wind howling up the Severn valley, I managed to get 2 punctures which added the best part of an hour onto the journey. We did eventually get there though, at about half 2, only to find it almost impossible to fish due to the wind. We wandered back towards home for about a mile until we were more sheltered from the winds, and finally got a bit of proper fishing in. Ben managed 5 or so perch to about a pound, and I managed a couple of small perch and a small pike of about 3lb, all caught on small (size 3) mepps aglia spinners. Not too bad considering we only had a couple hours of fishing in the end. I didn't get any pictures as I had to travel light and couldn't get the DSLR to fit in my bag, so instead I've added one of a better fish I had from the same area last year, cheating I know but you can't have a blog post without pictures!

One I had last year, hopefully I'll find some of this size this year too!