North East Piker: July 2017

Blogs I follow

Pike Blog

Sunshine - A Wye barbel, 9x chub and an eel. Make hay while the sun shines!
5 hours ago
Fishin' Impossible

Trusty sidekick - Date fished 17/6/2025 8am until 4.30pm Prologue In a fraction of a second, my rod was bent nearly double. Line was peeling off the reel, fish on! Unfor...
16 hours ago
Piscatorial Quagswagging....

Warwickshire Avon - Shandies and Shenangos - There’s something spiritual nay, borderline religious about the Glorious 16th. You could be forgiven for thinking it’s a pagan rite or the Queen’s second...
1 day ago
Bureboyblog

Pond dipping - Golden Pond has been good to me last couple of trips, the rhodos and flag iris are going over now but it is still a picture. The usual barrys with a liki...
1 day ago
From the banks of the Wye

Just One Cast - The 16th just hasn't been the same for me since I began Spring carp fishing. That, plus the Wye rarely starts with much gusto. Gone are the days of plann...
1 day ago
Of Esox & observations

A very enjoyable day - Father's Day doesn't mean so much when both your kids are well into their forties! Yet it was still very nice to receive an email, this morning, from my...
2 days ago
James' Angling Adventures.

Tench Campaign Part 4. - Well as the river season draws ever closer and the thought of stalking monster river Rudd and feeling the tug of the bronze torpedos as I get my 40 R...
2 days ago
Fishing & stuff ...

I can't remember a sea fish doing that before? - Another week passed by slowly as they do when I have something fishy to look forward to, in this case a favourable early evening tide. I like these as I...
1 week ago
Fishy Business, an angler's journal.

Gravel Pit Tench - After a series of trials fishing for tench [here] on my previous blog, the time had come to put my rigs into practice for a really big tench. A Cotswold ...
1 week ago
ordinaryangler

06/06/2025 - Briefly back down Bill's - Had a meeting with a new financial advisor down near Studley in Shakespeare country, so took the opportunity to use my Birmingham Anglers Association tic...
1 week ago
an anglers diary

Tenchy Trials and Tribulations! - I’ve probably said this before but, Tench are a bit of a bogey fish for me. Despite spending time each year fishing for them they’re not a species that has...
2 weeks ago
Lewy's Lines

New Zealander Feeder Champs, Lake Whangape, 25th April 2025 - After relocating back to New Zealand and shipping all the match tackle from the UK, I finally had the chance to try some NZ coarse fishing. How better th...
1 month ago
HUGH MILES - WILDLIFE ADVENTURES

SCREAMING FOR HELP - It’s early May and the swifts are back, scything noisily through our skies in celebration of completing their ten thousand mile non-stop round trip fro...
1 month ago
Blog | AndrewBlackFishing.co.uk

Bass on Lures - Bass can be caught on more or less anything, I often pick a few up each year while fishing for other species such as rays, and smooth hounds, so they are n...
2 months ago
Becks and Brown Trout

First signs of summer and first on a dry - Last season this upland stream was new to me , it was great to fish during those first few weeks when the high waters everywhere meant that this little ...
2 months ago
OFF THE OCHE, DOWN THE RIVER

Blythe - River Blythe 4:50pm to 6:45pm. Overcast. Calm. 9C dropped to 5C. River normal. Fished 2 swims. 1 chub. 2lbs+. Worked from home so I could grab the...
3 months ago
all the gear but no idea

Fern Bower, the Amphitheatre Track & Bridal Veil Falls - Blue Mountains National Park - Amphitheatre Track & Bridal Veil Falls 08-03-2025 This map was created using GPS Visualizer's do-it-yourself geographic utilities. Please wait while the...
3 months ago
By JAYZS

I Have Not Fallen Off my Perch but.... - Well, where have I been? Maybe that is what the very few who read my blog have been wondering. Does anyone know or care that I disappeared? Probably ...
4 months ago
Fishing Diary

Spring/Summer/Autumn 2024 - *How did we get here? * I hadn't been to the river Bain for nearly a year and a half. Anywhere I frequented with my dogs I initially avoided as a kind of...
5 months ago
Pete777

Unusual Pictures 20-12-24 - This car appeared after the water had dropped when we was pike fishing . Once the water went to summer levels the car was on full show . I caught a Gard...
5 months ago
Jorvik Angler

Nearly Cut Off By Flood Water - When I arrived at the river it was up and slowly rising. By the time I'd found a swim it started to rise a lot faster. The swim I found had a slack on t...
8 months ago
Lumbland

More tackle talk - For a few years now I've been using leger stems for my eel fishing. I know full well that when the line is tightened they don't stand upright, but once t...
10 months ago
Float, Flight and Flannel

The Pre and Post Christmas Rush - PRE-CHRISTMAS Sinking into the marsh, subsequent steps no deeper than before but each consistently sucked in by the peat-like soil, slowed the walk but...
5 years ago
Sam Edmonds Fishing Blog

Huchen fishing on the Una River in Bosnia - One of my favourite books to read as a boy was actually a book my Dad bought when he was a boy, which was all about freshwater fish species of Europe. I...
5 years ago
Fishing days

Time to start updating again! - Six months since I last looked on this blog, with available time and fishing motivation failing me somewhat. I have been fishing, but often seemed to be fi...
5 years ago
Charlton Carper

New Direction S9 Bite Alarm Review - *"As in all my reviews I'd like to start by stating that I'm in no way connected to new direction tackle. This is an independent write up that I hope might...
5 years ago
Kevs catches aka Kevin Sanders. All round Angling

Roach fishing. A catch of a lifetime! - For some time, I had known of a lake not too far away from me that had a history of big Roach. In the past I believe it had produced a fish of 4lb or ma...
5 years ago
North West Carp

Carp Rigs for Beginners - I swear tackle companies are trying to invent ever more complicated carp rigs to part us from our cash. It’s not uncommon for rigs to include multiple s...
5 years ago
Avon Angling UK

Canal Fishing - Another Great Session - 31/8/19 (Video 126) - The video of my lastest session is now available to watch by clicking the link below. *Canal Fishing - Another Great Session - 31/8/19 (Video 126)*
5 years ago
The Lure of Angling

Romanian Angling Club UK spring predator race - Hawksbury junction - I was really looking forward to this match being put on by the Romanian Angling Club. Along with the Polish anglers I see regularly on the local lure ci...
6 years ago
Joe Chatterton's Angling Diary

Taff Grayling and Trout - I'm not sure the advertising gurus at Starbucks had thought this one through!? It did amuse us though when we called in for a coffee on our way to South ...
6 years ago
Blogs from the bank: Carp and Coarse fishing

Looking back at 2018 - My syndicate lake in the autumn. Finding a balance between work and family life can be tricky enough at the best of times but throwing an obsession with ...
6 years ago
Monty Dalrymple and the View From Yat Rock

All The Big Perch Are Gone - I don't tend to bother with the blog anymore, it's too much of a chore and to me, it's not as much fun as it used to be. But I keep hearing from people tha...
6 years ago
Danny's Angling Blog

Simple Float ledger Rig For Pike Fishing - Hello and a warm welcome to this weeks angling blog i hope i find you all well and your nets wet. The first frosts have arrived and for some on social med...
6 years ago
The River Angler

Ruddy Marvellous! - Thirty five years ago I committed my most heinous of angling crimes. It was a beautiful simmer’s day on a Kent gravel pit. I spent many hours here as a...
6 years ago
Simon Crow Carp Fishing Blog

The winds of change - I’d been working at Carp-Talk magazine for 24 years, since the very first issue back in 1994. It then all changed in the middle of June 2018 when sadly t...
6 years ago
Duncan Charmans World of Angling

Positive ID please! - Positive ID please! I've always considered this to be a personal best salmon, caught years ago on a size 18 hook and double maggot from the River Itchen. I...
7 years ago
The Chopped Worm

PB Tench 11lb 3oz - *05/06/18* - After some great success on another lake bagging fish up to a new PB of 8lb 14oz it was time to move back onto the main lake in search of tha...
7 years ago
MH custom lures

- As of today the blog has been closed down and I will no longer be taking orders. Further sales will be restricted to batches of baits put up for sale on my...
7 years ago
Northwest Fisherman

Canada, small rivers and just why the hell do we bother? (Entry 218) - Did you know that the UK is on the same latitude as some places in Canada? If it wasn’t for the gulf stream we would be literally up to our necks in the wh...
7 years ago
Idler's Quest

Unfinished Business - Numbskulls - I have a great deal of never-published-material in the IQ archive. This article was probably worth putting your way at the time of writing. But I started, ...
7 years ago
An Anglers Dangling Log

Looking Back and Looking Forward - Well its time for a round up of last year and it was eventful for the first 6 months of the year then it all sort of went down hill. I decided early on ...
7 years ago
Andrew Kennedy's Angling Blog at Just-Fish.co.uk - Fishing Blog Coarse Fly Lure Pike Perch

New website - a work in progress - Beta live now! - [image: Just-Fish.co.uk new website Beta version]My old website, despite a couple of updates & minor facelifts, is vastly outdated, not very visually stri...
7 years ago
Ben Hennessy's Blog

New Rods – Making Moves - I expect most keen coarse anglers own a rod or two dedicated to fairly specialist tasks – perhaps a crisp, fast action float rod, designed solely with long...
7 years ago
Bite Edge

Northern Nev Q and A (NBD) - How long have you been making bait? I’ve been making bait all my fish life since I was a kid,always liked to play around. But have been rolling bait for 20...
7 years ago
Hampshire Angling Adventures

River Carp Stalking - I arrived back at the river very enthused after sighting quite a few fish on the opening day. It was not long until I had spotted a few familiar suspects f...
7 years ago
The Intrepid Piscator

I'm Back - The clanging of agricultural gates and rutted roadways. The dodging of the cow pat and nervously passing my bovine companions. Pigeons arguing among the...
7 years ago
Fish tales

ON A ROLL - Hello to all Unfortunately I have felt the need to take a few days of work,my back is and knees are sending me a rather painful message to slow down for a ...
8 years ago
The Association Of Crucian Anglers

ACA Merchandise & Crucian Chronicle - The ACA is proud to announce that in the coming months we will be launching our new annual ezine called "The Crucian Chronicle". This will be a downloada...
8 years ago
Paul on Coarse Fishing

Trip #99 - Pootlin' Around Portland - It’s been a long time since I’ve managed to get out on the bank or beach. So long that when we recently moved house my rod tubes and holdall’s had develop...
8 years ago
Fishing For Memories

Some Vlog Viewing -
8 years ago
Lured To Fish

2016 UK Shore, Lure Caught Species Tally - *Saltwater shore, lure caught species tally for 2016* 2016 was a good year for myself and my fishing friends, it was one where I set myself a target which ...
8 years ago
Rod Tips Pointing Skywards

Big Perch- PB to Heartbreak! - Back in the middle of October I had a successful session on a Midlands Reservoir with Andy, Giles and Kev; landing my biggest perch to date at 3-01. We cov...
8 years ago
Travelling Man

A Suriname Adventure. - Each January for the past several years I have travelled to South America along with Joe Taylor and other likeminded anglers. Joe is the linchpin having ...
8 years ago
A Fishermans Journey

December Predators - So December started with my now annual pairs lure match which I organise on the Trent and Mersey canal each year. This year it was kindly sponsored by ec...
8 years ago
CROOKED LINES

Fish Leather Books, New Website & Blog! - Greetings to everyone. You may or may not have noticed a few changes afoot with my site and blog. There is also some rather exciting news to share, which I...
8 years ago
Pike Fishing UK

Back with a Whimper - A whole year without blogging, what's that all about? Well last year my confidence was shaken, I have to admit it. Pike fishing is going in directions I do...
8 years ago
Barbel Quest

Ouch..... - Popped down to the river for a couple of hours last Saturday morning and conditions were pretty un-inspiring as they have been in general this season. To ...
8 years ago
Alex Makk's Fishing

Lure Bucket - A step by step guide on building your own. - Something a little different.... For my larger lures I carry them around in a bucket, have been doing it for a few years & this is because I see that the a...
8 years ago
Small stream brown trout.

Cane and Carp. - * The wondrous Cane rod in question, with traditional trout on the menu. * I had a plan to catch a few carp on the fly rod again this year. It's been a wh...
8 years ago
The Sweetcorn Kid

Long time no see... - Must apologise firstly for the lack of updates, most, if not all of my fishing write ups have gone towards my new book. It is now complete and should be pu...
8 years ago
The Pike Pool

Gold Rush! - *By Paul Millar (aka, Paul_the_piker)* Summer arrived early in good old Blighty this weekend! The mercury was touching 25 yesterday and it was far too warm...
9 years ago
A Specialist Anglers Diary

A specialist anglers year, part one - Despite my best intentions to try and resurrect my writing at the start of last year it all went to pot I'm afraid. After taking over the new business we r...
9 years ago
Tales From The Towpath

2016 Diary - The End - *Date:* Sunday 13th March 2016 *Venue:* River Tone, Somerset It might not be final day until tomorrow, but today was my last chance to cast a line on runni...
9 years ago
anglingadventuresdiaries

- A short session on the tees,a lady of the stream one of two a caught and a new species to my list.
9 years ago
A Scottish Angler

Download Free Classic RTS Game 7 Kingdoms Ancient Adversaries now ! - Today I want to share free game to you guys that I found from fossgames.com, this game is a classic RTS game Delevop By Trevor Chan of Enlight Software, yo...
9 years ago
“Be back at half past dark”

Popped up herring tail does the business again - Dawn was breaking when I arrived and a pike swirled on the surface in front of the first swim I stopped at. A wind was blowing across the lake and this w...
9 years ago
Norfolk 'N Good

Pike don't like Mondays - or do they..? - This one hit the lure and threw it in a tailwalk, before it chased it half way across the drain and nailed it under my feet. Not the biggest pike I've ...
9 years ago
One More Cast

Blimey I’ve not posted here for a while! - I’ve been fishing a fair bit, but in my opinion badly. Blanking for tench, carp barbel and big bream seem to have taken up most of my summer. It’s been h...
9 years ago
This Angling Life

Check it.. - I post a bit on face book these days and have a "This Angling Life" face book page. It's far easier to use than blogger especially on a mobile or tablet...
9 years ago
Trent Piker

Attenborough Bream - We're just back from a two nighter at Attenborough Nature Reserve gravel pits. A lovely place to relax and spend a few days fishing in the sun... and rain!...
9 years ago
Wet Dreams

Back On The Bank - Well it’s been a long time since I last updated my blog, and I have been putting it off due to circumstances which took place over the past six months. My...
10 years ago
finesse fishing

Back Door Man - I spent the morning trouting again amidst some spectacular scenery. I moved a couple of real brutes in the fast pocket water but in the clear, bright co...
10 years ago
River Piker

Back on the perch - It seemed to be over in a flash. The river season is well and truly closed now and it's time to look elsewhere. I've had a little dabble on the canal and ...
10 years ago
Fooling Fish

Obsessed - Its been awhile since Ive posted on my blog, the main reason for this is because Ive also started using Facebook. I didn't think I'd ever use facebook but ...
10 years ago
River Barrow Piker

Father and Son. - The weather was just about holding, the river was still pretty low and clear. There was one problem, I was getting earache from the junior piker. To say he...
10 years ago
Going with the flow

Early morning double - My last session was again on the wonderful Wye, I arrived just before dawn with a plan of fishing as the first rays of light for the day were popping over ...
10 years ago
BRYANS FUNKY FISHING

I,VE MOVED. - *I,VE MOVED MY BLOG TO THE LINK BELOW.* *BRYANS ANGLE LINK*
10 years ago
BendSomeCane

A Netful of bottles. - The night before saw me in the local pubs with work colleges on our Christmas drink. Being an odd fellow and a real ale enthusiast I'd convinced my mate M...
10 years ago
Schogsky and Hutch : Fishing Adventures!

Good News Day! - Hi Folks, well I am pleased to say that I have teamed up with Sea Angler Magazine as one of thier LRF / Light Game contributors! I am very pleased about it...
10 years ago
The Scruffy Piker

Damn Eels!... but a nice Pike. - I’ve been out after the eels again recently but have limited it to two short sessions per week now. I’ve been emptying my bait freezer of all my old deadba...
10 years ago
Dave Binns Angling

January 2014 - Firstly I would like to wish you all a happy new year and tight lines for 2014, hope you break a few Pb's this coming year. First weekend on the year saw...
11 years ago
Copdock Mill Angling

Christmas shopping - What do you buy for the angler in your life this Christmas? What do you buy for the fisherman who already has everything? There are plenty of ideas here ...
11 years ago
Mission Impossible : To catch 100 species of saltwater fish from British waters in 3 years

A 4-year wait ends in style : Day 1 back in Wales - Back in North Wales for a long weekend, my choice of mark was heavily reliant on the weather. I would ideally liked to have fished for tope for the whole d...
11 years ago
"Be back at half past dark"

When the wind blows from the East the fish bite least - Change of plan at the last moment. I was planning to go to Linear Fisheries for 48-72 hrs this weekend but it's still shut due to flooding. I have been w...
12 years ago
I Must Fish!

- So i sort of hibernate during the winter so i haven't done much fishing. I did have a few trips before christmas. Most notable was a Pike session in Novemb...
13 years ago
Roaming Free

Roaming Free - Mexican Adventures - 2012 - Show Me How To Live - Audioslave http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekEQ1v6SUtg Here Comes The Sun - George Harrison http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXDHlFrM16...
13 years ago
Tees Piker

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