Pike fishing.

I managed to get out for a couple of hours today and thought i,d try my hand at fishing for pike in the local canal.
I was using my spinning rod with a wire pike trace on it and mackerel heads as bait.
I managed to catch this little beauty, it is my first pike and was around 30 inches long and about 8 1/2 LB.

Loch Fyne.

I managed to get out for a days fishing on saturday, I was working friday nightshift and finished at 8am on saturday morning and left around 9.30am to head up to furnace for a bit of shore fishing.we parked up, me, my nephew chris and his father-in-law archie and went on to crarae pier which is a small almost demolished concrete pier.

We were soon set up and I was first to cast out, I was using a french boom between my weight and a small bubble float to keep my float away from crabs.

It was not even in the water for a minute when I got a bite, pulled it in and it was a small pollock, (third pic) a new species for me, nice start.

Archie was next up a minute later with a small codling and then within another couple of minutes I had another bite.

 This time it was bigger and I was hoping it was not a mackerel,and pulled out a nice Lesser Spotted dogfish (LSD) (first pic) which was about 3LB, another new species for me.

Chris was next with another small pollock, before he lost a bigger fish just as he was bringing it out.

Archie struck again with two at once, a mackerel about 2LB and a small codling.

I pulled out a wee codling (second pic) minutes later to make it my third new species that day.

Chris got a wee codling and then a mackerel and after just 30 minutes of starting we had about a dozen between us.

Soon after the tide started to go out and I decided to take of the french boom and float as they were getting tangled every cast with the strong under current.

 we pulled up a few more codling and pollock, all small, and some good size crabs, one of which was large around the 2-3LB mark, which I was taking home to eat.

It ended up a good day out, 3 new species for me and a nice crab too. we headed for home as I was back in work nightshift on saturday night so would not be getting a sleep till sunday, but it was well worth it.