Pike

Traditionally speaking, Pike are perhaps not best suited to LRF and UL tactics. However, there’s no denying that catching a small ‘Jack Pike’ is a whole lot more enjoyable on a light lure set-up. A wire trace must be used if targeting Pike, due to their incredibly sharp teeth. With a little luck, a chance encounter with a larger specimen can provide sport that is hard to beat. In my area, Pike find it hard to resist a white or bright paddletail fished slowly with a straight retrieve.

Pocket Pike

Pocket Sized Pike
Destined for great things.

Oxford Thames

Oxford Thames Pike
Masa with large Thames Perch

With the bass and zander ticked off already, Masa and I had the whole of Saturday afternoon free. We had the choice of pretty much anywhere to fish south of The Midlands, on our way back home. Masa had the first idea. To fish Oxford. More

HTO Stink Pots Pics

HTO Stink Pots Pike

A few pictures I wasn’t able to share at the time, while I was testing the HTO Stink Pots lures ahead of launch. More

Chasing Perch & Pike

40cm Perch


With the weather all over the place in recent weeks it’s been frustrating trying to find any consistency in catches. Some locations have offered up huge shoals of smaller Perch, but until today the bigger 30+ fish have been few and far between. More

Perching with George Cunningham (HTO)

George's First Perch

Without doubt, George Cunningham has had a huge influence on the state of light lure fishing here in the UK. George’s homegrown HTO brand has made it possible for thousands of people to try out LRF and ultralight fishing, without breaking the bank, discovering the addictive fun of these methods. By all accounts, the HTO Rockfish UL remains one of the best selling spinning rods of all time. So, when my threat of taking George Perch fishing on the Kennet & Avon finally looked like a goer last week, we were both really looking forward to it. More

Most Popular UK Predator?

UK Predator Popularity

I was bored at work yesterday afternoon and decided to see if I could answer the question, “which is the most popular UK predator?” There’s no denying that interest in predator fishing, especially lure fishing is exploding in the UK right now, but which predators really interest anglers the most? More

BLAC Out

3lb 12oz Perch from Chew Valley

And that was that.

Definitely a void in my chest this week. A hole left by the completion of the inaugural British Lure Angling Championships, on Saturday at Chew.

What an amazing thing to be a part of.More

Nice Canal Pike

Pike on a Para Max

Very happy with this one. Went walkabouts yesterday and managed to find a stretch of the K&A with a decent Pike in residence. More

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