Andy then put his bait right over where I had the take and within a minute his float disappeared and he was into a fish on the bathtub roach.Īfter a spirited battle, a nice jack pike surfaced and angrily flared his gills at us. First, my rod signalled a take but the bathtub bream was dropped before I could strike and I wound in a bait that had clearly just been attacked by something toothy. Their presence is a total mystery as there is no way they were born in the bath (they were year-old fish and it is impossible for them to have spent this length of time living there) and the water was iced over, making their long-term survival even more doubtful.īeing fisherman, we discussed this oddity for a few minutes without conclusion before carefully removing the fish (one bream and one roach, both about five-inches long) and sending them back out into the nearby river attached to some suitable pike gear. My aims for the next few months are: more big pike and zander, a good-sized shark, a lump of a cod from the Suffolk coast, a muskie and a catfish.The bath. I use modern tackle but I’m not slavish and I firmly believe that a wild fish which required significant effort to catch on balanced gear is worth many dozens of much larger fish caught from a lake stocked heavily in the angler’s favour. My ethos, whilst not wishing to be a Luddite, is very much rooted in the more traditional forms of the sport and you will never ever see me at a commercial carp pond or muddy-hole-in-ground fishery. Fishing a Thai jungle river for catfish, landing a huge cuttlefish on livebait off Ko Phang Yang, barracuda fishing off Dubai, jigging for haddock in the Faroe Islands and tiddler-snatching from a pier in Monaco are amongst the highlights. I also take great pleasure in catching new species of fish in previously-unknown-to-me places.
I’ve also been fortunate enough to land some really special fish too, including Chub up to 6lb 3oz, Carp up to 20lb 4oz (stalked from a tiny river backwater off the surface), Zander up to 12lb 7oz, Pike up to 24lb 8oz (from the River Cam in Cambridge on 8lb line), Crucian Carp of almost 3lb, Perch up to 2lb 5oz and many other fantastic fish. I’ve not looked back since and I’ve seen and experienced some incredible places. Many years ago, I was captain of my regional National Youth Championship team and a successful competition fisherman but I realised that this wasn’t really fishing as it was meant to be, so I regressed back to only angling for wild, predatory fish in unusual places.
HAIRY ANGLER FISH PLUS
I’ve fished in many places around England plus Iceland, Faroe Islands, Norway, Thailand, France, Tenerife and Dubai for everything from marlin and sailfish in a tropical paradise to arctic trout through a hole in the ice in minus 20 degrees centigrade. Cod fishing in Iceland 2008 (C) Reykjavik Grapevine
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