Piking.

Thursday saw the first real fishing trip i have been on in a while. A recon trip to not-so well known loch in the north lanarkshire region, good time to be out pike hunting with them spawning, saw many pike jump in the shallows, and loads of huge splashes in the margins....well i whent with my brother,(not my usuall fising partner) as he was the one who told me of this place, we set up our two ledger rods, i cast one in marginal areas and one into a nice little drop off i had found, and the same with my brother, the traps were set and now we had to play the waiting game.

after about an hour of being at the swim we heard the heart stopping bleep of the alarm, whos rod? my brothers, but this produced a storming run. My brother hit into it, and the fight was on. after a good few minuets of playing the fish i done the honours and netted the fish, it was a nice jack at 8-9lbs all battle scared from mating, livly buggar. he returned safe and sound.

well i sat and i prayed but to no avail, that was all the action we saw all day, in all a succesfull trip i think. i will post pics of the fish soon, next thursday we will return and i want at least one fish from it this time!