To combine the useful with the pleasant, part 2.

In our penultimate post we left our report with Erik's long distance release of a nice pike. Here's one taken just before the smart fish decided to stay out of Erik's hands altogether:




Harmen-Jan did what he could to get himself a pike too, but his furious efforts didn't bring him the well-deserved fish that morning.




Sander however decided to fish the same spot over and over again, because he "knew" there had to be a pike at such a promising spot and he just had to wake it up from whatever was causing it not to strike at one of the previous 40 casts. This may not be the right strategy to win the tournament in Finland, but it did get him another nice pike.




In total these 3 morning hours only got us 4 landed pike and some more moved or lost. No blank at all, but definitely not what we hoped and even expected after the long period of ice. So off we went to our clothing sponsor (who will be featured here soon) and after that to Tom from Hot Spot Fishing. The next day we also had some piking time together, so find out if we did any better that day in one of the upcoming posts on this blog.