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I finally managed my first pike of this season yesterday. I've really struggled with getting up early so camped out Tuesday night by the lake under the umbrella. After coffee yesterday morning I got the rods out and within an hour had the 15lb pike on float fished dead roach. A while later I had a pick up on ledgered mackeral, which was dropped, a recast and a little later I managed an 11lb pike, as I netted it, the hooks fell out. I also had 3 more dropped takes on mackeral, which leads me to believe that mackeral has been hammered as a bait.

fair to say progress has been good, infact this new split can custom rod is finished but i have to wait till varnish is fully dry before i get it, about a week, it looks superb and cant wait to fish with it on its namesake water

It has been some time since I posted here but I still catch a few carp and other species. The Lot still has been getting excess water from upstream dams, massive flows at times. I have heard that one large barrage is being drained for maintenance on the Truyer, a tributary of the Lot, that would explain the difficult conditions. But the fish are still there, the carp are sometimes pushed by this extra flow to seek shelter in the canal sections joining the main river. At least that makes finding the carp a little easier, still a task to hook and land them though! Some photos of this years better fish, the scenery is not bad either!

With the Hobart you do need to make sure you stop the mixer before changing the gears or you will smash them. the modern ones have a fibre gearing I have known bait makers smash the metal gears up and it’s usually the first gear because they are like animals doesnt matter how much they are told either lol

Well done on sorting out the Cards 👍