Pike Fishing in Edinburgh
Ade
Does anybody do any pike fishing in or around Edinburgh? I've recently moved
to the area, and having been a carp angler for many years I now fancy
turning my hand to pike. I live very close to the start of the Union canal,
and have seen quite a few nice pike in there, anyone know the best way to
catch them? I fancy having a go with plugs, any tips anybody?
Tight lines!
Ade.
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Arthur G. R. Sutherland
>Hello all,
>
>Does anybody do any pike fishing in or around Edinburgh? I've recently moved
>to the area, and having been a carp angler for many years I now fancy
>turning my hand to pike. I live very close to the start of the Union canal,
>and have seen quite a few nice pike in there, anyone know the best way to
>catch them? I fancy having a go with plugs, any tips anybody?
>
>Tight lines!
>
A large net of the correct mesh stretched between the banks and moved
slowly along is probably the
best way of removing large quantities of fish from any stretch of water.
fox1
>>Does anybody do any pike fishing in or around Edinburgh? I've recently moved
>>to the area, and having been a carp angler for many years I now fancy
>>turning my hand to pike. I live very close to the start of the Union canal,
>>and have seen quite a few nice pike in there, anyone know the best way to
>>catch them? I fancy having a go with plugs, any tips anybody?
Duddingston Loch is worth a try... :-0
Stuart
wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>Does anybody do any pike fishing in or around Edinburgh? I've recently moved
>to the area, and having been a carp angler for many years I now fancy
>turning my hand to pike. I live very close to the start of the Union canal,
>and have seen quite a few nice pike in there, anyone know the best way to
>catch them? I fancy having a go with plugs, any tips anybody?
>
>Tight lines!
>
>Ade.
Ade
try a search for Pike Fishing on www.google.co.uk
This is one site I got
http://www.mikespikepages.freeserve.co.uk/pike/pike1.htm
If you do a "search within results " for "Edinburgh" that might throw
up some more localised links like this one >>
http://www.where-to-fish.com/docs/2d032001.html
cheers
Stuart
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Stuart
wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>Does anybody do any pike fishing in or around Edinburgh? I've recently moved
>to the area, and having been a carp angler for many years I now fancy
>turning my hand to pike. I live very close to the start of the Union canal,
>and have seen quite a few nice pike in there, anyone know the best way to
>catch them? I fancy having a go with plugs, any tips anybody?
>
>Tight lines!
>
>Ade.
I also meant to say,Ade ,if you can get to Loch Lomond try there as it
is the bees knees for pike fishing .
!Speedy Gonzales!
mixed results. I used a short trout rod, about 5', with a variety of
spinners with either a single or treble hook, size 5 or above. Most times I
would catch small pike, even heard of someone catching a perch once but
never seen it for myself.
The place where I fished was the stretch between the Slateford aquaduct and
the New Hailes footbridge that crosses Lanark road, at the rear end of
Redhall park. Along that stretch there is an 'old wreck' of some sort of
canal barge or dredger ( I assume it is still there) and the fish used to be
plentiful around there, so much so that numerous ducklings have been seen to
be pulled under at that point by 'mysterious forces'.
I have recently seen more people fishing though in the area of New Cultins,
which is just outside Wester Hailes so I assume there is better sport out
that way!
Good luck & tight lines!
--
!Speedy Gonzales!
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A couple of years ao I chatted to a couple of guys fishing in the canal near
Polwarth and was told that there had been a 20lb pike caught there before -
at the time I was amazed any fish were actually living in the canal. (Must
be a mutant variety that can eat traffic cones...)
Recently I have been suprised at how many fish there are in the Braid Burn -
lots of trout, mostly small but another local angler told me that he had
caught a 3 lb trout further upstream.
All, in all I am impressed that anyhting is living in the local waters, I
guess the rubbish you see is all aesthetic and the amount of chemicals going
into the waters have really gone down - see reports of otters and salmon in
the Water of Leith, even a few years ago that would have been unbelievable.
Of course I would still have a few doubts about eating anything I might
catch in the city limits, or even offshore...
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AG
a l l y
When I was a wee lassie we used to go down the canal with those wee
fishing nets on sticks, and catch minnows, which we put in a jamjar.
One day I caught an eel as well. I put it in a separate jamjar, and
left both jars standing in the bath overnight. Next morning the eel's
jar was empty, the minnows had all disappeared, and a somewhat larger
eel was inhabiting the minnows' jar. Took me a while to figure out
what had happened..............
:-)
Ally
Ade
looking for someone who knows about catching pike from the canal, rather
than general pike info.
Duddingston Loch... yeah that's a nice place, but can't you only fish a
small stretch of bank?
Cheers,
Ade.
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