Birmingham Anglers Association

Great story Mr Chub - I have also had very scary experience when wading and bringing fish to hand. Just as about to lift out a dace a very large pike leapt at it and almost had my hand off. Thankfully she missed us both, but for the rest of the session i used a landing net, whatever the size of the fish. Interestingly while wading in clear water, have on a number of occasions had some big perch up to 2lb, nudging round my legs picking up stray maggots Stick on a big worm, drop float in by your feet and then hang on!