Rollers on the river

Big, big winds, 45-50 mph in gusts and plenty of flying limbs. Piking the only option. Low rods and hunkered down. Pike Pro lifters being shoddy and crap I had to rely on my sardines to do their best against weed and crays. In the event two dropped runs and a bucket full of crays were my lot

The jury is out as to whether this 3 miles of lovely lowland river I've fished and haunted for 35 years will now have to be a cloak and dagger Forbidden. Gamekeeper turned and all that/