The 'Fat Lady sings', well almost



      Saturday evening and that's it. It's all over for another season. No more pike fishing until October, and no sneaking out on Sunday for a real last day cast because somebody made Mothering Sunday coincide with the last day of the coarse fishing season. That's a lack of planning and foresight if ever I've seen it.
      Just to rub it in the weather was rubbish too with bright sunlight and the return of a cold wind too, not quite the lazy wind, but damned close and still chilling your bones if you were fishing from bank areas that were not sheltered.


      I fished off the disused and increasingly rickety old landing stage and the bank on either side of it, I rather think that the little landing stage will be gone by next winter; absorbed by the Fenland drain to be a home and safe haven for small fish. Four pike landed but not one of them was the proverbial 'fat lady'. One pike was a jack of about 3.5lb, two in the 8lb to 9lb zone and one of 11lb. The pike in the photograph below had a bite mark on both sides of its body just forward of the dorsal fin, so something bigger was cruising around hunting in the depths of the drain.
      One thing is for certain, I've had worse afternoons than that, and to round off an enjoyable afternoon Boro beat Ipswich 4 - 1. Marvellous.
      Time to strangle a couple of Old Speckled Hens I think.
      Cheers.



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  1. Lovely fish TT. You finished off in style

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  2. I think the lack of extra water in the drain system has held the pike fishing back, although yesterday the Sixteen Foot was very full, and all the interconnecting drains too, obviously. But the water is clear. never mind a good season with plenty of doubles and three over twenty so I'm pleased. I had some old casters so I tried for the roach and ten or eleven up to pound. I haven't seen them all season, typically.
    Is that the Bure or Wensum that you fish? tackle cleaning and fly tying time, a moth has got into my fly box…

    All the best, John.

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    1. Mostly the Bure, TT. Will be out with the fly rod this year, really do fancy it again after about 30 years without so much as a flex of a rod. .Scribbler and I would love to come up, we can return the favour on our undisclosed stillwater, or the Bure perhaps

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    2. Right, if we start planning in the summer we should be able to crack it. I'll check with a couple of farmers if they mind a couple of visitors pike fishing with me. All the best, John

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  3. Why don't you fish for pike during the summer, TT?

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  4. Some people do but there's a tradition amongst most pike anglers that we wait for them to come into condition after spawning and for the weed to die back with the cold weather. All the best, John

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  5. Great end to the season TT......especially after Boro had thrashed Ipswich. That's it for Town I think. Play offs if we're really lucky. McCarthey's done well on absolutely no money though.

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  6. Boro didn't spend a lot, they sold the skivers and spent the money wisely. Amazing how the roach turned up on the last day, or typical. It's been a good season, next season you and BB must get up here. Who knows who will get the automatic places. Boro's next two games? Derby and Norwich…

    All the best, John

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  7. Great result tonight, i think you're going up. Yes, it'd be great to get up to the fens for a session. And you should come to our "Suffolk Stillwater" in the autumn. Lets make it happen next season. Me and BB are on a monster koi hunt soon, at a barely fished private lake.

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  8. A happy man last night believe me., a big result. You are on we'll organise something, I'm sure we can manage it. John

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