Well done boys' good on yer (even if pellet and paste might be involved
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On a similar theme I went for a rare few hours yesterday, can't get out much midweek nowadays
There I was fishing the punch on the T & M at Great Haywood. Had a few roach and a skimmer on the short line.
Then I went over and except for odd little roach I could hardly get a bite which is very rare for this venue as it is seething
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Anyway I hooked a right lump and lost it, then caught a few more small roach but bites were unusually scarce.
Then I hooked a better fish, again on the punch, that led me a real merry dance, I thought it was a proper bream. Net ready and up it came, a fooking pike which I duly netted
Looking back I reckon it was the first pike I had got out in about 40 years so I was really chuffed
Oh, by the way, the crappity smack must have weighed all of 12 oz but it genuinely took the punched bread
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