So, you've never heard of spotted carp (besides some koi). Well there's
no koi carp in Finland. This blog entry is again about pike. Fishing lakes, to be precise.
Some might say that my
catches are rather modest considering the size of the pike I am
catching. I don't actually care, because I am having way too much fun
fishing. And that is what I want when I go out of my door.
I was fishing last weekend:
On Saturday
I managed to catch some pike (up to 3,5kg) with Savage Gear Hard Eel 25
cm. I then switched to spinnerbait (Da'Bush) and headed up close to the
reeds. Some 5-7 smallish pike from there (up to 2,5 kg), and after this
I decided to head back for deeper waters. The big pike weren't hanging
around the reeds (at least for now on this spot). I browsed through my lure box for something different that I could use on deeper water -
and still have a strong swimming action on slower speeds. Luckily I had
one 20cm Savage Gear Line-Thru Trout (Albino) in my lure box, so I
decided to give it a try. I had two casts which were not producing
anything. On the third cast, I had two strikes which I couldn't connect.
I was devastated. The fourth cast was empty, but just next to the boat a
pike struck the lure viciously! I was thinking that this is just
another 3kg pike... wrong. The rod bent quite steeply and I started to
think this was not a 3kg pike. After a strong scrap just below my boat I
got the fish into the landing net. A nicely formed pike (you could see the belly from above the fish) Nice! The
next cast I connected again. The scrap was still quite hard - and I
managed to net even a bigger pike than the last one.
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| A different pike (and heavier) than the one on the picture below. Pike are absolutely magnificient creatures! Treat them with respect. |
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| Well... actually you DO look a bit fat! |
