North East Piker

 23/07/22 Straight to the river after my last shift of a 60hr week, half a can of Redbull on the way, the other half for the drive home. I w...

  13/07/22 A session straight from work, clocking out at 21:58hrs, a quick coffee followed by a 45-minute drive and I was fishing by 23:15hr...

 07/07/2022 Another session straight from work, fishing like my previous sessions, a baited area in the margin and one on towards the far ba...

A short session on the river, on the bank for just after 21:00 and off by 01:00. Similar tactics to last session, both margin and far bank c...

 A couple of days after the 16th I headed straight to the river after work for a short session, in the hope of trying to locate any remainin...

 I didn't manage to wet a line during the close season, a handful of recce's to new stretches (usually followed by a pint) was as cl...

 I’ve not had too many pike sessions this season, consciously spending the time I would usually target pike, fishing for barbel and perch in...

 My youngest daughter brought covid home with her, nothing serious but after a few days I was also testing positive. I was expecting to test...

Having caught my target 5lb chub from this particular river a number of times during summer barbel sessions, I was really looking forward to...

Back down to earth after my last couple of sessions on the Trent, a quick Xmas eve chub session with my nephew Will and then a few hours bar...

After that last Trent trip temperatures dipped so I changed my focus to perch from my local rivers, 3 trips, 3 different rivers, 3 disappoin...

 A planned social session down to the Trent for a mates birthday, 3 of us stopping for some food and a beer then heading to the middle Trent...