nice bass while pike fishing

[Big bald beautiful 1,231]

http://www.anglersmail.co.uk/news/brilliant-bass-while-piking/

 

Also in todays sun newpaper

 

 

I have taken flatties and the odd see trout in the tidal don(first time this season), but nothing as nice as this

lucky lad

[KittleRox 2,147]

lucky fecker well done pal

[Big bald beautiful 1,231]

Yep, would have liked to see the look on other anglers faces

[NEWKID 29,098]

Used to catch scoolies in the tidal exe when eel fishing ( long way up the river too) but nothing as big as that, bet that was a nice shock.

Also had 3 sea trout on stick float and maggot ( 2 in one sesion), and lost a cracking salmon which I hooked on a 18 hook and maggot had it on for about 2-3 mins and chased it down river in waders as it was going mad and jumping clean out of the water, one of those fish that got away but I remember like yesterday. The tidal Exe was my favourite stretch of water for a lot of years

[mackem 30,063]

Got a friend who I suspect must have been poaching who set a gill-net out about 4 miles upriver in the Wear,amongst his catch was a codling

[Big bald beautiful 1,231]

found an 8lb salmon on the tidal river at howden a few yrs ago while mink mouching