02-20-2014, 06:25 PM
Haven,t lived in the London area since 2002-now near Manchester. I forgot we have grayling in the rivers here, too. My biggest freshwater fish was a 30 pound common carp caught on a live minnow in 1958 in Redfield Lake, eastern South Dakota and totally by surprise. My bigest pike was also a complete shock -a sixteen pound four ounce lady out of that same lake four months later while fishing for crappies with a fly rod with a size 12 black gnat on above the spillway and along the rocks. A tiny crappie grabbed the fly and the pike grabbed the crappie and wouldn,t let go. Somehow I managed to land the "biggie". Would have weighed more, but by the time I got her to the scales more than an hour had passed.
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