40lb 8oz UK fly caught pike

I'd like to congratulate Pike fly-fishing Association UK member Mike Green for breaking the Chew venue record for a fly caught pike a few weeks back. This is definitely a contender for slab of the year.

Pike on the fly in Austria

Sorry for not being around for the last 5 days but we had a major storm here last Friday and our internet access has been down. Anyway here's some pike on the fly in Austria.

Pike Photography

Engbretson Underwater Photography has been supplying quality stock photos of Native North American fresh water game fish to industry professionals since 1993 and provide photography for editorial, publishing, advertising, corporate, and other uses. They have built an image library of thousands of pictures of largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, walleye, northern pike, musky, panfish (perch, crappie, bluegill), catfish, trout and many other species that are popular with fisherman. Its worth it just to stop by their website and have a look at there catalog.

Alternatively how about this website from the Netherlands by underwater photographer Edgar Donkervliet

Durex condom Pike streamer

About a month ago I read an article from the WAtoday.com.au which said that despite Australia's best efforts to supply safe-sex aids to AIDS-ravaged Papua New Guinea, there's no stopping local creativity in finding unusual uses for condoms. Local fisherman cut them up for lures, and women find the lubricant good for their hair and beauty regime.

It’s a fact that pike can be fooled into taking all manner of materials found on lures and flies, if presented to them correctly. It was only a few years back when I was in Russia that I witnessed a bloke catch a pike with just tin foil molded onto his hook. Which got me thinking if local fisherman in Papua New Guinea could catch tuna with condoms then how hard could it be to fool a pike into taking one..

So I’ve come up with the Durex condom pike streamer.

Not that I think you’ll want to tie one but here’s a step by step tutorial

Tie a small clump of mullet brown SF Flash blend onto the back of the hook

Add the condom next over the SF Flash blend. I used an extra ribbed one here

I then added 6 Peacock plumes for lateral lines

Next, palmer black and red hackle feathers on, & add stick on eyes and cover with clear resin.

John Gierach once wrote "If you fish the wrong fly long & hard enough! it will sooner or later become the right fly!"

Puglisi Poppers

Check out these Bitchin Poppers by Enrico Puglisi. They come in Black/Purple, Red/White, Red/yellow & All white. Click here to visit his site or you can order them from Dyckers website in the Netherlands.

Pike on the fly in Canada

Here's some footage from the Northwest Territories Canada. The pike was taken with a Chartreuse Clouser Bunny.

Booker T

Here's Booker T & the MG's playing A classic tune to perk up your Monday morning.