Sussex: 6:30am till 5:00pm

[Parky]

Went fishing on Monday (28/3) with a friend, his dad and his grandad.

After choosing our lake, which was linned with beds of weeds, and in the middle, a island, we decided both to put out our rods both on ledger.

I was using method feeder with a hair rig; 6lb line with 2 boileys for bait and a friend was using pear shape lead weight, 10lb line with hair and boileys for bait.

After a long while with no bites on our ledger rods, we decided to get out the float rods. This was a fair change as we were catching little skimmers and roach will the other rods showed no dfference.

Still nothing on the other rods, so we decided to just bait up once more and just leave them out for the remander of the stay, and so we did.

On our swim, we were catching, but then suddenly, not far from the bank, a big splash and we didnt manage to catch a full glimpse of what it was but we were judging that it was a tench or a carp.

But we were then getting all the little fish jumping out the water followed by this big fish, which i just mentioned, and we were sure that it was a carp or a tench.

But in being sure, we were rong, as on his float rod, with 10lb line, my friend hooked into this fish and to our amazement it was a pike. He was fighting with it but has no chance, the pike just bit straight through his tackle; he wasent happy.

Overall a dissapointing day as we expected more...but all the well as we know next time to be sure what fish it actually is.....

[Norfolkboy]

Shame you didn't get any carp or tench, but it's sometimes a nice little break to be catching small roach, rudd, skimmers etc..

You should take some piking gear next time

[Parky]

The thing was it did not say anything about pike in this particular lake so if it was the fact that they didnt know that there was a pike or i could be that they knew there was the only one so they didnt bother saying anything about it in their lake describtions....