Here they are, the pictures of Eric Edward’s incredible brace of pike caught within an hour of each other – we reported the catch last week within two hours of the last fish being caught.
Specialist angler Eric Edwards from Thatto Heath, St Helens caught the fish on a green rubber worm jig twitched along the bottom. Eric was fishing with boat partner Gary Knowles on 900 acre Staffordshire’s Blithfield Reservoir.
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The pike, weighing 37lb 8oz and 41lb 8oz, is the biggest brace recorded from a British water.
Gary said, “The amazing thing is that these Blithfield pike are not the usual gut buckets associated with trout waters. They are really broad with large heads – superbly proportioned fish.”
