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    Get them dogs off rice and switch to cornbread!

    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Tonight I caught this thing, no idea what it's called but it looked a bit like the UK's chub.
    It's some sort of fish..just trying to help out.

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    I can’t help feeling that you’re stealing good food from the wife’s dinner plate!

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    You seen this, Mendy?

    Angler lands record-breaking pike with ‘once in a lifetime capture’

    I imagine you're familiar with the lake.

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    The perpetual pike!

    It's been fed, caught and released umpteen times.

    It's even got a bar stool named after it in the local Worzal public house.

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    ^^ Yes Hal, I saw that.

    I used to fly fish for trout on the Bristol Waterworks lakes, mainly on Blagdon but also on Chew Valley a few times. Both lakes were exclusively for trout fly-fishing 40 years ago but then coarse fish somehow got in, mainly perch and pike. A pipe connects Cheddar Reservoir (where I once caught a 20lb pike) with Baldgon Lake, and at the time they reckoned coarse fish fry entered Blagdon Lake from Cheddar Reservoir through that. I'm not sure if Chew Valley and Blagdon Lakes are connected or not, but they're not far apart.

    Anyway, Brostol Waterworks eventually realised that they couldn't control the coarse fish and started to allow pike and perch fishing through the trout closed season, which back then was mid October to early April (I think the coarse closed season starts mid March?).

    People started catching big pike and perch after a few years and I think the main reason the pike are believed to grow so big is that they feast on the stocked brown and rainbow trout which are very high in protein. That 47lb trout must have eaten a small fortune in trout.
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    There are a few committed lads who I regularly see on the canal at home fishing for pike and, funnily enough, one of them looks the spit of the fella in the photo, so maybe it's him.

    They're a pest as far as I'm concerned (pike, not the chaps ) 'cos as soon as they move into your swim, you know what happens. The biggest I've seen landed was about 15lb and that put up a fight, so I would like to have seen him getting that one in or even yourself with the 20 pounder.

    Not for me, although I occasionally get the odd little jack by mistake on worm or maggot, but I'd say most anglers I see these days are either fishing for pike or carp.

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