A very bad fisherman
When the pike hit
the lure I did what I have been telling myself I shouldn’t do, instead of
striking and setting the hook I reached for the button on my camera. The pike
needless to say was camera shy and just as I got the video going it threw the
hook and buggered off to recover. I gave a few more casts just in case it was
having second thoughts but I guessed it had better things to do. Well this was
my first outing with my new Sushi Whip Tailed Grubs, I hadn’t actually caught a
fish but at least I had proved to myself that it had attracted or annoyed one
enough for it to take a swing at it.
Despite
being five in the morning other anglers had begun to arrive and my open water
was quickly reduced to small patch which felt only a little larger than the
bath tub I had tested the lures in. Before long I was into something again and
this time I managed to strike. Whatever was on the end of the line shot off
stripping line from reel as the drag buzzed. Despite thudding away at my rod I
was not convinced it was a pike, I thought maybe it was one of the fabled
catfish or a foul hooked carp. A few
mutes later I was gaining on it and the back end of a very large eel emerged
from the weeds.
I suppose an eel foul hooked doesn’t count unless you are a
really bad fisherman. The only compensation was that I didn’t have to get my
forceps down its mouth to unhook it.
