The Pike Hunt Continues

Fished a North Cornwall reservoir, with the hope of finding some Pike. Mild weather for February, with the waters surrounded in mist, bit of a breeze blowing. Scaling up slightly from my previous two excursions at this venue, fished with a Nories RockFish Bottom Light 7-15g 6'10 rod, with a Daiwa Certate loaded with Sunline Momentum 4x4 1.0PE (16lb). A selection of mid sized plugs, and today I took along a few softies with various jig heads.

Met up with Sean, just as I had begun fishing, and we both worked down one side of the reservoir. Sean had a couple of Perch bumping his lure beneath his feet, too small to get the hook up on his lure. We switched pegs, and I had a take from a Pike, as I jigged vertically in front of me. Was cool to see the Pike flash out and grab the lure. Quickly landed, the fish was small, probably the smallest Pike I have seen! Unhooked it an quickly returned without a pic. As we moved from spot to spot, we saw plenty of Pike holding up in the shallows, between the reed beds, but no interest in the lures.

I moved on to target the stream that flows off the weir pool at the dam. For this I used various ultra light plugs from DUO, working them in and out of the shallow flowing waters, letting them pause in the deeper pools, where the small Brown Trout and Perch were holding. Had a nice handful of fish on these excellent little plugs, the two lures working best were the DUO Spearhead Ryuki 45S and the DUO Tertra Works Bivi.

Back on the Pike hunt, down the opposite side of the reservoir, caught up with Sean, just as he was bringing in a Pike, so I was able to get a couple of pics. Shortly after he had another take, from a much larger fish, putting a good bend into his rod, but unfortunately the hook lost it's hold, and the fish was off. After that, it was time to head back to the cars, and the hunt will continue another day.