60lb pike??

Haha just abit mate poor cat mat hurt its self wen it hits the water sommat bigger to secure it!!!

I would give it a go

What a result you would get...

Just imagine if your float slid away

"Shit, hope I packed the water ski's"

MY 2

Cant see a thing

That your'e pussy and channa paul?

I prefer the free lining them

no image woody

Wtf, There,s nothing in Stottys post, nor yours woody
Mum was right, I will go blind

That fish has some bollocks, clearly just winding the cat up, "you cant get me, Im behind glass "

Is the image up yet

Nah mate

channa wrote:That your'e pussy and channa paul?

yes

it is from lac majeur in italy/switzerland

and ive fished it for the pike

biggest i had
















around 6lb

Looks a stunning bit of water from the pictures on the link, does it do many big pike John or was this one out of the blue

i think its true.....

be a bit of a shock if you were just using ultralite gear and fishing for perch "think Ive just shat myself"

Woodchucker wrote:Looks a stunning bit of water from the pictures on the link, does it do many big pike John or was this one out of the blue

has been doing huge pike for years (to the italians and swiss now the germans have invaded along with a lot of wealthy soviet types) thats why i trundled over for two days fishing there last time i was in the alps (well the dolomites its part of the alps chain but all crumbly limestone and via ferrat) climbing but alas nothing big came my way, its a effin huge sheet of water with ridiculous depths where that pic was taken its around 15-20 m deep some 'swims' have boulders in em the size of the boulders at y dinas cromlech (bout the size of a double decker bus) its hard work as well

i was very lucky to catch when i went so wont complain too much about the size

I had a 21lber on my ultralite gear and it was horrible my rod and reel made some cracking noises

noodle wrote:

Woodchucker wrote:Looks a stunning bit of water from the pictures on the link, does it do many big pike John or was this one out of the blue

has been doing huge pike for years (to the italians and swiss now the germans have invaded along with a lot of wealthy soviet types) thats why i trundled over for two days fishing there last time i was in the alps (well the dolomites its part of the alps chain but all crumbly limestone and via ferrat) climbing but alas nothing big came my way, its a effin huge sheet of water with ridiculous depths where that pic was taken its around 15-20 m deep some 'swims' have boulders in em the size of the boulders at y dinas cromlech (bout the size of a double decker bus) its hard work as well

i was very lucky to catch when i went so wont complain too much about the size

Must be nice to have fished and caught on the water which has produced the largest pike ever to be caught on rod and line

nixon wrote:be a bit of a shock if you were just using ultralite gear and fishing for perch "think Ive just shat myself"

have you seen the locals fish it then

they all use these walking floats (mostly for the trout in there) called diapiombo's (spp memory is a bit vague) and just use tiny little fly spoons and spinners on 4-5 m telescopic rods. thats how most of the pike come out i was well overgunned with 30lb braid and a solid glass spinning rod i got free over there with a bottle of wine (i kid ye not 10 euros for 5 litres of local red and the shopkeeper who sold me the permit gave me a rod as well)

Woodchucker wrote:

noodle wrote:

Woodchucker wrote:Looks a stunning bit of water from the pictures on the link, does it do many big pike John or was this one out of the blue

has been doing huge pike for years (to the italians and swiss now the germans have invaded along with a lot of wealthy soviet types) thats why i trundled over for two days fishing there last time i was in the alps (well the dolomites its part of the alps chain but all crumbly limestone and via ferrat) climbing but alas nothing big came my way, its a effin huge sheet of water with ridiculous depths where that pic was taken its around 15-20 m deep some 'swims' have boulders in em the size of the boulders at y dinas cromlech (bout the size of a double decker bus) its hard work as well

i was very lucky to catch when i went so wont complain too much about the size

Must be nice to have fished and caught on the water which has produced the largest pike ever to be caught on rod and line

er apparently lac du misurina has done bigger (was camping not far from the shore of this lake and only found that out when we had travelled accros to fish this one