I have just got home after a morning on Teddington weir with Chris Clark in his new inflatable boat. I was a bit dubious about lure fishing from a blown up plastic boat but the fabric on Chris’s boat is very thick and is inflated in panels. This means that if an accident happened and a treble hook did penetrate the fabric only part of the boat would lose bouyancy. We only took two rods and a small box of lures, this meant a very stressful evening yesterday as I went through my massive collection of lures trying to decide what to leave behind.
We arrived at the weir at 6.45am and were fishing by just after 7. The boat is blown up by a small hair dryer like device and is just big enough for two anglers. I had my biggest Thames pike on the second or third cast, it was about fourteen pounds and took a silver Shakespeare big S plug. Not a very big pike but my best from the Thames after hundreds of pike up to about twelve pounds from this river.
I caught one more about four pounds and had two more takes one on a large silver spoon fished deep and Chris had one about five pounds on a large pike coloured Creek Chub Pikey plug. All fish were not weighed but unhooked outside the boat for the safety of both ourselves and the fish.
A very pleasant morning’s fishing and home by lunchtime.
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