 Hello everyone, I was due to be pike fishing with Sam Pitcher today on Tube Valley Lake But it's 20 mile per hour winds and we decided to cancel and head off to the Somerset levels to do a bit of pike fishing there Instead we thought we'd stick to the fly fishing theme So we've seen plenty of these today some of the exchange ticket offered by Fremont district angling Association If you've not seen it the club is it club mate or club pal Do these exchange ticket systems between all the clubs down here? So excellent value for money. Well worth a look And I've got some home tide flies that I'm going to give a try Fly lines airflow sniper That's the barrio predator line. These I've seen daylight for over a year. I think over two years probably It's just coming up to the end of the river season So the pike will be thinking about spawning now a mess. We'll have to sort that out later And even though I'm fly fishing there's still a chance of a deep hooked fish so I'll take the cutters on cutters And I'll take a hook sharpener 50 pound fluoro attached to 40 pound American fishing wire It's a venue. I'm not familiar with so I start off with the die three and what I think is a fully mill perch imitation fly Because of the environment agents is almost paranoid flood prevention strategy on the Somerset levels The water is extremely low probably two to four foot deep in most places The fly is very buoyant so I can fish it slow and suspended but very close to the bottom After a couple of fruitless hours and covering plenty of water We pause for thought and assess the situation You enjoying yourself Do you think it's a winner chicken dinner we just not very cool Quite short actually No, I don't think there's any Herculean cast required. I think it's just to the opposite bank let it swing round Yeah, I'm probably only fishing about five five foot Using a shorter leader means we can get the fly down quickly, which is important on such a narrow channel It also means we've got more control of the fly when we're casting in such heavy wind Excited after getting my first take of the day and missing it I slow my retrieve down only to snag and not only use my leader, but my connector, too This force is a switch from the Shakespeare agility 10 weight to my 8 weight backup rod that's loaded with a barrier predator line With a darkening sky and disturbed surface. I choose the bulkiest brightest fly I can find in my box Which catches the wind and sits up too high in the water Not wishing to change it. I slide a three gram tungsten cheb weight over the loop connection and reattach the fly The knots in the loop prevents the cheb from sliding up the trace and the extra weight creates a nice suspended jig action Then this happens My concern is that my net is probably gonna be too small I'm shouting like a band-shoot. I managed to land it on my own. All right, let's get the unhooking stuff sorted I'll bring it up. Oh, yes My goodness Hold on Charlie, what's your PV? I want to say that's bigger than 15 Well, no pike in here, mate To be fair We were all getting a bit negged out. We fished the other side of the bridge and it was not really happening It was quite shallow. We came this side and I walked past Charlie and he said that he'd had it had a follow He said it had a follow so I went up and then heard this woo-hoo, and we thought he'd just caught a pike We didn't realise it caught a crocodile That is a nice fish In the rain, they said, you catch loads of pike, they said, but it's not been easy, but this makes up for it Absolutely, look at it as it got this size of that I think I think 18 18 And it's on the fly as well, which is good Yeah, that's what that is actually all for You can be socking out at two value, mate Nice, here we go Wey, that is superb Boyed by the excitement, we flogged it out for the rest of the day, but to no avail It's the end of the river course season in a couple of days time I expect the pike are thinking about spawning, so I'm happy to leave them to it My next vlog will probably be at Langgors Lake again pike fishing from the kayak I hope you enjoyed the vid, if you did please consider subscribing Even if you didn't consider it anyway because it helps support fishwish projects where we get new anglers and disadvantaged anglers out fishing See you next time. Cheers for watching