Pike Fishing on the Bristol Avon

With Short Day light hours and Christmas to prepare for an enjoyable way to make the most out of your winter fishing is a short session on the river lure fishing for pike,

So armed with a selection of lures both soft plastic and hard lures,
 I sent off on Tuesday to explore a section of the Upper Avon I had not fished before,
The river was in perfect condition slightly up with a tinge of colour,
Moving down stream fishing every 20 metres soon produced the first fish of the session a small Jack pike of around 4lb , on a gold Savage gear shad one of my old favourites sadly not made any more ,

Time to change to a fox replicate, 5’’5,    working my way back along the river the lure was hit by a bigger pike which put up a spirited fight making 3 runs down stream before I netted it, this one weighed just over 10lb a nice size for a small river,   
so well worth making the effort , will return to this section of river to try it for Chub in the new year,