"Derek.Moody" wrote in message
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In article , Brownz
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Fly rod and line.
Which I don't have, so I might get away with my short and whippy
spinning
rod ?
Maybe - is it meaty enough to set the hook? Don't forget to include a
short
wire trace.
The risk with a surface lure and any other floats/controllers up the line
is
that a fish is quite likely to attack the interesting blobby thing the
mouse
is apparently chasing.

I know this only two well..... I've had a pike take a swim feeder from the
line on the weir pools at Sutton Courtenay.
I've also had one burst a pike float when retrieving a dead bait !

You don't say how big it is but I bet chub would be interested too.

Its about the size of a large thumb, I think the chub would definately go
for them, I've had chub on wasp style spinners before.

Then slowly bring it back across an leave it close in to where the
pike
hang
out.
Lots of fussy, ripplemaking wasted motion. Keep it more or less
moving.
Give
it the odd popper-style jerk.
So, worth giving it a go in the winter ?
It'a really a midsummer lure but who knows ;-)
I know that I've caught pike on diving plugs during the colder months,
they
tend to inhabit the deeper waters am I right ?
A safe rule of thumb but they do also come into remarkably shallow water.
(out for a sesh tomorrow, I'll let ya know how it faired).

Weir pools were unfishable, all the weir gates were open, far too much swell
and the water was muddy as hell.
I ended up going over to Linear Fisheries and chucking a couple of carp rods
out.
(No luck their either !!)

Please do, I'm on panic shopping :-(

Ha - did mine on Monday :-) I only got stuck for about an hour in traffic
trying to get out of Oxford ;-(

Cheerio,


Cheerz - Brownz